Friday, October 19, 2007
Now everyone has suddenly started to speak about surface
computers
.
Actually What is a surface computer?
A surface computer is a computer that interacts with the user through the surface of an ordinary object, rather than through a monitor and keyboard.
The category was created by Microsoft with Surface (codenamed Milan), the surface computer from microsoft which was based entirely on a Multi-Touch interface and using a coffee-table like design, and was unveiled on 30 may 2007. Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by setting real-world items tagged with special bar-code labels on top of it.
The Surface is a horizontal display on a table-like form. Somewhat similar to the i-phone, the Surface has a screen that can incorporate multiple touches and thus uses them to navigate multimedia content. Unlike the iPhone, which uses fingers' electrical properties to detect touch, the Surface utilizes a system of infrared cameras to detect input.
Uploading digital files only requires each object (e.g. a Bluetooth-enabled digital camera) to be placed on the Surface. People can physically move around the picture across the screen with their hands, or even shrink or enlarge them.
The Surface has a 3GHz Pentium 4 processor, 2GB of memory, an off the shelf graphics card, a scratch-proof spill-proof surface, a DLP projector, and 5 infrared cameras as mentioned above. However, the expensive components required for the interface also give the Surface a price tag of nearly $10,000.
The video shows the working of a surface computer......
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