Introducing Microsoft "Surface"

Imagine a day when the everyday desk can serve as your very own multi-touch interface system. But not only serving as a desk, but maybe a kitchen table, breakfast nook or conference table. Bringing the digital world to our everyday lives. Imagine being able to place a soup can on this "Surface" table and being given the nutritional content or follow-up recipes. Imagine using your finger as a brush on Adobe applications such as Photoshop or illustrator. That'll be the day huh? Well apparently Microsoft has just introduced the "Surface"...well maybe not recently, but what the hell. Microsoft "surface" allows users to shift through digital content with the flick of the finger. You'll be able to place your cell phone, camera, and any other digital storage medium and transfer media onto the the table for viewing, editing, or sharing. At the retail price of $10,000, A few companies have been considered the early adopters of this system creating their own applications to suit their needs. While Microsoft is focusing on commercial applications, they are also working on reducing the costs introducing it to the main public in 3 to 5 years. You can read the article here on adweek.com

Reading about this system I came up with some ideas and applications of my own that may have already (or not) been thought of by Microsoft...

- On table multi-touch interface cell phone.
- Cable television
- Auto-CAD applications
- Adobe Software
- Holographic potential (think Star Wars)
- Virtual arm wrestling or boxing
- Movie editing
- Virtual cooking lessons
- Virtual massage practicing
- Finger mazes

These are just a few of my inane ideas.