Microsoft Milan
Hate to admit it, but Microsoft gets cool. Microsoft Suface, aka Milan, is an amazing new approach to holistic communication with limitless technology interaction. Take a look at this video or visit their site at microsoft surface. This is soooo smart!
June 25th, 2007 at 12:59 am
I am a bit skeptical about this technology because this has been done for a while, but very little companies if any have tried to commercially push it as a product.
Other things are missleading, for example, the point on putting a cammera on it. Is it a special cammera (with bluetooth)? I dont think a computer can extract the pictures of a device that don’t have connectivity devices other than phisical ones like a cable.
Also is that once you start adding security layers, you need manual authentication and then is not so seamless.
Also is this just like those tablet PC that they never really took off because it was so overpriced that nobody could get it. Finally in the end what will be used for? I see the pictures, but aside from that what will be there, documents? video? audio? web?
All of these other concepts like music, video and web, the model of leaning on a table sounds useless. Nobody want to have paper on your desk that is an image and then expand it and read the document. I guess it will look cool but is totally under used.
I DO think this might be useful on something like autocad, or some kind of design, high level information like a blueprint. But even a database or a UML code tree it might be kind of messy.