Microsoft Surface. Now we are getting somewhere!

[TheFaithfulStone]

Originally Posted by Buffy

In my own industry, these things are going to be *fabulous* for doing graphic design and pre-press print production: right now, what we do is have a graphic designer sitting at the keyboard while the rest of us lean over her shoulder and point. Or we print everything out and congregate around the light table. Now we can do both at once! No back and forth!

Oh. dear. God. I hope to hell not. The last thing I want is clients and programmers standing over my shoulder going - "Can we make the logo bigger? Bigger? BIGGER?" <shudder>

I actually interviewed at a company that had something kind of like this - it was like a 35 or 40 inch Cintiq tablet, and it was linked over a network to a similar device at the photographers. The ADs would all scribble on the shot, which showed up on the thing, with their special pens, and the photographer could see the notes appearing on his screen. It was a pretty neat system.

TFS

[sanctus]

Originally Posted by Zythryn

I find the use of this technology amazing and am surprised no one else has done it before on this type of application.

Buut if you go to the end of the article you linked to, there is this video from this other guy who already planned to commercialise it before microsoft...and actually i like his presentation more than the one from microsoft.

[Zythryn]

Yes, I liked the other presentation too. However, it was simply a technical presentation, with no proposal for a product. The reason why I like the MS presentation so much more is it indicates a movement from the 'drawing board' to technology that will be available in the real world. Quite possible very widespread as well.