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2:45AM Mark Wilson | The Infractor is probably the least efficient manner in which you could read the morning paper, but it involves a Fortress of Solitude-esque prisms and interactive rays of light. Quite simply, the paper has never looked better. Check out the video demo. More »
How Superman Might Read Newspapers
2:45AM Mark Wilson | The Infractor is probably the least efficient manner in which you could read the morning paper, but it involves a Fortress of Solitude-esque prisms and interactive rays of light. Quite simply, the paper has never looked better. Check out the video demo. More » 
Computers
11:00PM The Paperboy | Microsoft’s Courier booklet was surprising, mostly because it was so far outside of what everybody now expects from a tablet. This internal video shows how Microsoft thinks we’ll use Courier. More »
Leaked Courier Video Shows How We’ll Actually Use It
11:00PM The Paperboy | Microsoft’s Courier booklet was surprising, mostly because it was so far outside of what everybody now expects from a tablet. This internal video shows how Microsoft thinks we’ll use Courier. More »
Computers
Bill Gates Predicts Tablets To Be ‘Most Popular Form Of PC Sold In US’
7:51AM Mark Wilson | Our own Adam Frucci doesn’t like the idea of tablet computing. And most of the world agreed with him back in 2001 when Bill Gates and Microsoft were pushing the form factor. 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 »
Science
First TV Image of Mars Ever Was Made With Crayons
5:00AM Jesus Diaz | What you are looking at here is the very first image ever taken of the surface of Mars. It was acquired by NASA’s Mariner 4 using a television camera, and rendered using crayons. Look closer: More »
Software
Microsoft Presents Us With Their Vision of the Future
4:50AM Mark Wilson | XUI, or experience-user-interface, is Microsoft’s anticipated evolution of the NUI, or natural user interface (a la Surface). What’s that really mean? It means something amazing—essentially computers/life rethought. More »
Computers
Microsoft Surface Is an Incredible User Experience That Sucks a Whole Bunch to Setup
8:20AM Matt Buchanan | Surface is a triumph of Microsoft usability and design. It’s a multitouch table computer. Minority Report! And so on. Setting it up, however? Ominous foreshadowing: It comes with a keyboard and mouse. More »
Computers
Maximum PC Builds a Surface-like Multitouch PC for $US350
2:20PM Adrian Covert | Maximum PC didn’t like the idea of paying $US12,000 for a Microsoft Surface. So what did they do? They made their own multitouch table PC for less than a third of that price. More »
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