Microsoft Surface, Would you buy it? Options

[Kiln]

Well guys the people at Microsoft have been hard at work making something new and exciting...at least they think so. The new Microsoft surface is a table computer that you operate without a mouse or keyboard, simply by using your hands or various other objects to touch the screen. Personally I think it looks interesting but not nearly as practical as people at Microsoft believe it to be. The parody I've posted basically goes along with how I veiw the Microsoft Surface.

Here's the site with info and the trailer- http://www.microsoft.com/surface/index.html

And here's the parody- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY

So what do you think?

This post has been edited by Kiln: Jul 29 2008, 07:15 AM

[stargelman]

We've been talking about devices like this at work and thought it would be pretty cool for meetings and things like that, because you could read documents together or throw one document over to someone else (not sure that'd work with Surface but...)

I do not think this is something you will find in every home in ten years time, but there are a lot of valid applications for something like this. At least if they remember to implement multi-touch.

[Kiln]

I do not think this is something you will find in every home in ten years time, but there are a lot of valid applications for something like this. At least if they remember to implement multi-touch.

Yeah I suppose there could be many different ways to make use of this but if there are I think they should've showcased them better because basically what they made it look like was a rather large and also expensive device for storing/sending pictures and videos.