This guy is my new hero! A two dollar multi-touch interface? Hells yeah!
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Crazy! Microsoft have impressed me.
My overall impression of MS is a company that has made a fortune out of follow the leader. You know, let the others take the risks of developing new and innovative products, wait and see how they go and if they are successful, tweak them enough to keep the majority of law suits at bay and then market them to our users using a combination of brute market force and disinformation.
But all that editorial opinion aside, this surface deal is way cool and looks slick and awesome. I can’t wait get my fingers over one and give it a whirl! It shows that a new interface age is upon us. I can’t wait until my studio is just a big multi-touch screen and a couple of speakers.
I guess what I’m expecting next is for Apple to come out and say, “Here’s a thin portable wireless multi-touch interface, that acts as the controller for any mac you have in the house, your Apple-TV, iTunes - whatever. You want to sit up in bed and read the paper on-line? You want to watch a movie streaming to your multi-touch tablet?”. Then they just have to say, it’s available now and you can buy it for $1,000 US or something. It’s probably not going to happen yet, but I’m sure we’re gonna see more and more of these products over the next 18-24 months.
My old buddy Tyson, who has been working for MS for a few years now posted a great movie up on his blog about this as well. Good old Jeff Han, the multi-touch daddy makes a few appearances.
Some interesting stuff popped up on this boingboing post covering the 2007 Coachella festival. Björk is out and about playing material off her new LP Volta, and as usual, she right up to date on what the cool kids are into, and a lot of it is about multi-touch interfaces. Some of her band playing with the sexy and expensive Lemur (maybe to control Ableton Live?). And to top it off they’re using the totally sweet reactable as part of the show (the reactable is visible on the LH side). Our local pal Ross Bencina had a part in the reactable’s development, so I guess Ross can now slip Björk into the CV there someplace. Also, the low slung drum setup got my eye as well. I sure hope we get to see this show up here at the top of the world sometime soon. I guess the tour blog will have to do until then!
