Will your next PC come from Ikea?
By Nate Cochrane
Nov 24, 2009 4:19 PM
Multi-touch is poetry in notion.
In the next few years, you may go to a furniture shop to get your computer rather than a traditional reseller if August de los Reyes has his way.
As principal design director for Microsoft’s multi-touch platform Surface, de los Reyes is building interfaces so simple that they hide the underlying technology and build intelligence into everyday objects.
The much-lauded Microsoft Surface is a tabletop display that reads a variety of input using five video cameras, one of which reads infrared heat signatures. During a demonstration at Microsoft’s executive briefing centre in Sydney, Microsoft evangelist Michael Kordahi demonstrated applications that ranged from digital artwork creation to planning a trip using prototype software developed for Lonely Planet’s Sydney airport shop.
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