Microsoft announces ‘Surface’

Looks like Microsoft’s jumped headfirst into the multi-touch surface computing game, and have launched Surface, a public-space oriented computing platform that will allow people to get hands-on at hotels, restaurants, and retailers. Lots of video of the ‘coffee table computing’ technology available at Popular Mechanics, at 10 and at the Surface site. I discussed desktop multi-touch and Jeff Han’s concept demo of hte technology before.