Microsoft Surface Sphere Will Be Multi-touchable Next Week

Microsoft is going to debut its spherical multi-touch Surface next week at its annual Research Faculty Summit. We’re pretty curious about what you can do with a big ball of multi-touch (and wondering about the little things–is it a perfect sphere? How are you supposed to hold it? Is it like a globe?). They pulled references to it off the exhibit list (to keep it a surprise, probably), but it’s still very much on the floor display map, as you can see. We’re stoked. [Mary-Jo Foley]