Microsoft Unveils Surface Computing

Domino-tagging, Surface Computing technology, real-life object——these are the terms that shall be new right now (this day in fact) but would be the idioms of the future
in the computer world. Just five hours ago, Bill Gates and Microsoft had unveiled the Surface Screen computing to a wide media coverage with Gates himself demonstrating the computer-of-the-future where the keypad and the mouse shall take a backseat and would be doomed to obselescence, as he(Gates) showed and wowed worldwide audience on the amazing capability and innovation of a computer system that both beguiles and amazes the mind.

In surface screen computing system, operations can be done thru the simple use of the hands or fingers. The conduct becomes simpler yet the technology behind it challenges the boundaries of thought. I myself could not believe that this day would come, when reality meets fiction and fiction rattles reality. And through all that, my mind is reminded of a very futuristic movie in Tom Cruise’s and Steven Speilberg’s “Minority Report” where the huge computing system could be efficiently controlled by bare hands or fingers; as images zooms in or zooms out, enters or escapes, with merely the wave of the hand. This is the future, now.

And the package is so neat with the use of giant screens for multiple users at any one time. And the images are sharper and clearer and definitely—-as I have said earlier—-operations would be simpler and more efficient.

There is some hitch to this “new thing” however for it costs a whopping ten thousand dollars to have it in your living room at this time, about half a million pesos. Or simply said, it is equal to having a brand new car in the Philippines.

But Bill Gates committed prominently that prices would sharply dive down in three or five years, as sales gradually increase (exponentially I hope). So for now, we have to wait and be patient.

Soon surface computing would be available on the nearby second hand store. Or on Ebay for that matter. At a much affordable price—-I hope.