All the stories tagged with: microsoft surface
Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface ships
01/16/2012, The next generation Microsoft Surface, known as the Samsung SUR40, has begun to ship to those who have deep pockets, and to top it all off, this picked up a CES Best of Innovations 2012 gong. This is the fruit [...]
Microsoft Surface and Robotics Developer Studio used to create Search and Rescue robots
11/03/2011, Some researchers over at the University of Massachusetts recently came up with an interesting method of controlling robots. Using Microsoft Robotics Developers Studio and the Microsoft Surface, they managed to develop a search and rescue robot that is controlled by [...]
nsquared shows off seamless computing
08/31/2011, It looks like the future of computing is shaping up to be pretty impressive, judging by nsqared’s latest video demonstration of seamless computing. On the official nsquared blog, the company recently showed off a computing system that makes use of [...]
Parrot AR.Drone controlled via Microsoft Surface
01/27/2011, To say that the AR.Drone is cool is probably an understatement. Now what happens when you combine it with the Microsoft Surface? A video has surfaced of a WinWise employee using a Microsoft Surface to control the Parrrot AR.Drone and [...]
Amnesia Razorfish offers gesture sharing with Microsoft Surface
01/26/2011, Heard of Amnesia Razorfish before? We haven’t either, and think that it is a cool name for a rock band. The company, however, offers high tech solutions, and their latest effort would involve Microsoft’s super expensive Surface multitouch display. Their [...]
Microsoft Surface 2, Hiding @ CES
01/09/2011, Microsoft was showing Surface 2 discreetly behind closed doors (even folks at the MS booth didn’t know about it, lol) and this second edition has been built in partnership with Samsung (we’re talking about the hardware only). So what’s new? [...]
Hong Kong karaoke bar makes creative use of Microsoft Surface
12/15/2010, Red Mr in Hong Kong is the first karaoke establishment in the world that allows their customers to have a field day with the Microsoft Surface, putting to shame those folks who are so proud of their iPads that they [...]
Microsoft Surface adapted to offer therapy for cerebral palsy patients
11/11/2010, The Microsoft Surface isn’t only business-oriented, as it has recently been specially adapted by researchers from the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to have it assist kids suffering from cerebral palsy get some [...]
Microsoft LightSpace Surface Computer Encompasses A Whole Room
10/05/2010, The folks over at Microsoft Research must be having a field day playing with LightSpace. While Microsoft Surface allowed us to interact with objects projected on a table, LightSpace extends that by projecting the interface on a whole 10-foot-by-8-foot room. [...]
Mirosoft Surface has future in homes
09/13/2010, Microsoft’s Principal Researcher, Bill Buxton, recently had a lengthy interview with The Globe and Mail. According to him, the next wave in technology would be somewhat akin to Microsoft’s Surface, where future iterations will be much thinner (no thicker than [...]
Ideum MT-50 introduced
03/03/2010, Remember the Ideum MT-50 that we looked at last year? Guess it has just gotten officially introduced, where you get NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 285 graphics card running inside for some serious graphical firepower not to mention an input that can [...]
Microsoft To Demo New “Mobile Surface” at TechFest 2010
03/01/2010, Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet found the news on the Microsoft Research Site: Microsoft will demo a more portable experience of its multi-touch table computer this week at TechFest 2010 in Redmond. You can read Microsoft’s description of the project: [...]
Pictionaire table works like magic
01/25/2010, Thanks to Microsoft and the University of California Berkeley, this Pictionaire table relies on overhead cameras in order to churn out a digitized copy of physical objects. In turn, this enables one to manipulate real world items through the intuitive [...]
