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Microsoft's Surface: A deeper look Camera icon

Tim Ferguson silicon.com

Published: 03 Oct 2007 16:05 BST

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This table-like device is Microsoft's Surface computer, which the company has been showing off in London.

It uses a 30-inch screen, several cameras, a Vista PC and a projector to create an interactive, touch-sensitive environment that reacts to objects coming into contact with its flat surface.

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  1. Surface has it's uses David Long
  2. Expensive gimmick or real innovation andrewdonoghue
  3. Not new? 1000157554
  4. But really? welshtroll

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