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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 application shows an image of the bed of a stream. When you place a finger on the screen, it reacts as if you have disturbed the water above the pebbles.

The Surface device currently costs between £5,000 and £10,000, but Microsoft hopes it will be in homes in around three to five years.

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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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