What lurks below Microsoft's Surface? A brief Q&A with Microsoft

Minority Report meets the kitchen table in the new Surface from Microsoft. Claiming that surface computing is "as significant as the move from DOS to GUI," the company today announced a tabletop device with an integrated 30-inch screen and five cameras to enable multitouch access to music, photos, the web, and more. According to Microsoft, Surface isn't simply a regular PC with a touch interface--it's a whole new category of computing device that will ... Full Story »

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Ars Technica interviews Nigel Keam, a member of the Microsoft Surface team, about the insides of the product. At the end of the article it is also indirectly answered a question on the lips of many bloggers since Surface has been issued at the end of May: is Surface an original Microsoft idea or not, after MIT's and Jeff Han's similar projects announced and demoed in the previous years? Still, it's one-sided story.

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