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4:47PM Nick Broughall | Brad Howarth at ITNews reckons that the NSW government is seriously considering how they can implement the Microsoft Surface into their future plans after Minister for Commerce Jodi McKay visited Microsoft last week for a demo. God I hope not. More »
Shouldn’t The NSW Government Spend Your Money On Something Useful?
4:47PM Nick Broughall | Brad Howarth at ITNews reckons that the NSW government is seriously considering how they can implement the Microsoft Surface into their future plans after Minister for Commerce Jodi McKay visited Microsoft last week for a demo. God I hope not. More » 
Entertainment
CRISTAL: Control Your Living Room By Dragging, Dropping, Swiping
6:15AM Dan Nosowitz | CRISTAL is a research project that moves the universal remote to a Microsoft Surface-type table with incredibly intuitive gestures. Want to watch a movie? Drag the cover to your TV. It even lets you trace a path for your Roomba. More »
Software
This Is Exactly What Touchscreen Surfaces Were Invented For
4:20AM Jesus Diaz | Generally I skim through videos of more than one minute. This video demo of Ruse running on a Microsoft Surface is 4:23, and I watched every second of it in complete amazement. And then, I watched it again. [Thanks Oscar] More »
Software
SurfaceTwitter Is Like TweetDeck On Multitouch Steroids
5:40AM Matt Buchanan | Holy crap: a multitouch Twitter app for Surface. The capabilities are a little basic now—only 25 recent tweets are shown in ScatterView, where you can manipulate them—but thinking about the possibilities explode my brain. [Microsoft via Microsoft Gartenberg More »
Computers
Uncrating the First Surface Table in Australia
3:00AM Adam Frucci | Unlike many gadgets, the Microsoft Surface Table isn’t something that a lot of consumers get a chance to unbox for themselves. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get to enjoy seeing some lucky Aussies from the Amnesia Blog pulling the first Surface in the land down under out of its crate. Follow me past the jump for a nice dose of living vicariously through others. More »
Computers
Microsoft Multi-touch Sphere Plays 360-Degree Video, Trippiest Pong Game Ever
3:35PM Matt Buchanan | The Seattle PI has the first look at Microsoft’s multi-touch Surface Sphere–simply Sphere–that we’ve known would debut this week. It’s more advanced than Surface, since it has to use algorithms to round images, and uses an infrared system to detect hands and objects touching it. It plays omnidirectional video and what has to be the craziest rendition of Pong ever. The video shows a lot of amazing potential, but incredulously, it’s just an ooh-and-ah project right now, with no commercial plans–it’s just supposed to relay their vision of everything as a potential Surface. We’re convinced, now make it happen. [Seattle PI] More »
Gadgets
College Student Makes Multi-touch Table Out Of Cardboard Box
6:00AM Gizmodo US Edition | Microsoft’s Surface multi-touch table sure is cool, but who has US$10,000 to spend on a gadget like that? I personally have maybe fifty bucks to my name right now, so I guess I’ll have to fulfil my multi-touch itch with a cardboard box and a webcam like this guy. More »
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