Friday, May 7, 2010 - 3:24am
Who uses a stylus anymore? I guess it still makes sense in certain instances — like with a Nintendo DS — but all in all I find them cumbersome. Microsoft thinks you still want to use them, though, and makes...
surface stories
Friday, January 8, 2010 - 2:52pm
The name is a little blah, but the results are pretty darn cool: ASUS's new "Waveface" line of OLED products are designed to redefine the way we think about the shape of a gadget. Take the Waveface Light for example,...
- exploration
- LCROSS
- lunar
- moon
- nasa
- probes
- robotic spacecraft
- robots
- space
- spaceships
- surface
- the moon
- water on the moon
Friday, November 13, 2009 - 12:34pm
It's official, folks: Brita can start selling lunar water filters. NASA confirmed the presence of lunar agua today with a cheeky: "The argument that the moon is a dry, desolate place no longer holds water." Oh, NASA! One month ago...
- carnegie mellon university
- CMU
- D&D
- Dungeons & Dragons
- Dungeons and Dragons
- microsoft
- multi-touch
- Multitouch
- surface
- Table
Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 2:04pm
Say hello to Michael. He's one of the developers on the Surfacesapes project over at Carnegie Mellon University, and he's about to walk you through just about the best use for Microsoft's Surface multitouch table in the video above....
Monday, June 15, 2009 - 6:50am
There's something familiar about this interactive desktop that Asus showed off at Computex 2009 in Taipei. Let's see… the surface of the desk appears to be a large interactive touchscreen, able to interface with anything you put on top of...
- art
- art installation
- design
- microsoft
- multi-touch
- Multitouch
- programming
- software
- Strukt
- Struktable
- surface
- video
Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 11:45am
What would Microsoft's multitouch Surface table look like if a bunch of artists designed it? Well, if the Struktable is any indication, it'd have a lot less of the functionality — you know, being able to surf the web and...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 1:02pm
Microsoft is playing it straight with the next generation of its Surface table. Called SecondLight, it will be just that — an upgraded Surface table with a second projector. The added projector will allow the Surface to layer one screen...
Monday, November 17, 2008 - 4:21am
We compare a lot of things to Minority Report around here — since it's so damn cool and all — but most of the technology we come across simply approximates the almost ridiculous amount of gesture controls presented by...
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 - 1:12pm
For it's latest trick, Microsoft's engineers have given the multi-touch Surface PC table a bartender's sixth sense. If you set your drink down on top of it, the Surface will be able to detect just how full it is....
Wednesday, April 2, 2008 - 6:50am
You may recall Surface, the interactive-table thingie that Microsoft showed off last year. Surface is basically a table-size computer with a 30-inch touchscreen as a tabletop. The screen actually does some cool stuff when you put certain things on...
