Microsoft Surface
Behold! The Microsoft Surface in all its glory... A friend of mine (who will remain nameless unless they want to take credit themselves) works for a company called Vectorform who has been working with the Surface for a while now, judging by the dates of the posts. They kindly pointed me to the site they've just now put online to showcase what they've been doing with it. Apparently, they've had a Surface SDK all this time and have been working on testing the limits! Pretty awesome, if you as me... What I would give to see one myself.
But yeah, not a whole lot to say... I mean, it's the SURFACE. I don't know why, but I'm really excited about it. I don't think people realize that Microsoft actually does invent stuff on their own. Everyone has to. Here, check out their Research page. The cool thing is, Microsoft makes a lot of neat little tools and then shares them for free, so be sure to take a look at their Downloads section. I remember stumbling across a voice-over-IP application they built long before Skype took the spotlight. (Heh, I'm looking through the downloads right now and came across a BitTorrent Simulator designed to show how torrents utilize network bandwidth. See? All kinds of neat stuff...) Anyway... Point is, you should check out the Surface and what Vectorform is doing with it, plus, you should check out all the freebie applications Microsoft has up for download on their Research site. Some of that stuff looks really interesting!