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    Microsoft's Surface coming home in a hurry

    Microsoft's Surface has yet to make it into the hands of businesses such as hotels and casinos, but that hasn't stopped CEO Steve Ballmer from stating that he hopes a consumer version will become available sooner rather than later.
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    Re: Microsoft's Surface coming home in a hurry

    I guess we need to get cheap touchscreens - maybe with OLEDs being thinnner they can bolt the additional tech on the front and be about as thick as panels as we have now?

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    Re: Microsoft's Surface coming home in a hurry

    I seem to remember it uses cameras rather than a touchscreen if you see what I mean. The neat thing wasn't the touch capability but more the object recognition.
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    Re: Microsoft's Surface coming home in a hurry

    Dangel's right. It has a projector inside it to project the image onto the table and five cameras inside that record anything that touches the surface.

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