Microsoft Surface Features

Main interface components: Direct interaction, multi-touch contact, a multi-user experience, and object recognition.

Direct interaction: Facility to manage digital information with hand gestures and touch instead on mouse and keyboard.

Multi-touch contact: User need not use only one finger to manage digital data. If user dips five fingers in five different colors in the on screen paint palette and draws five lines with five fingers, you get five lines with five colors.

Multi-user experience: Typical computers accept only one keyboard and a mouse. Microsoft Surface accepts multiple inputs from multiple users. More than one person sitting across the Surface, can do independent work on the same Surface.

Object recognition: The system can identify physical objects placed on the Surface. It can relate the appropriate software for the appropriate item placed on surface. Objects may be recognized based on their shape or on special codes ( like barcodes) affixed to them.

Display Type: 30-inch Flat panel display

Orientation: Horizontal – like a table to allow users to use, share and create experiences together.

CPU: Core 2 Duo processor

Processor: 1 GHz processor.

Installed Memory: 2GB of RAM

Hard drive: Yes

Graphics Card: 256MB graphics card.

Projector: DLP light engine like the one used in rear-projection HDTV.

Cameras: Five cameras with infrared filters - net resolution of 1280 x 960

Material: The tabletop is acrylic, and its interior frame is powder-coated steel.

Surface: Not touch-sensitive surface. When you place or drag a finger, internal projector lights screen from beneath.

Power Supply: Standard American 110–120V power

Operating System: The custom software platform runing on Windows Vista

Network Connectivity: Wired Ethernet 10/100 and wireless 802.11 b/g and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity.

Dimensions: 22 inches high, 21 inches deep and 42 inches wide.

Weight: 150 pounds

Other features:

Drag & Drop: Like any widows Operating system, all items can be dragged and dropped.

Automatic Identification: Can identify objects. Place your Digital camera on the surface and you can see the photos displayed on the surface without actually downloading!

Initial customers: Harrah's Entertainment, Starwood Hotels and Resorts, T-Mobile and IGT.

Ideal for: Restaurants, games, shops and Entertainment

Microsoft Surface Approximative Price: US$ 10000