Here's an article in yesterday's Times about it. You can use two fingers or even more - for example, you can drag two corners of a photograph outward to zoom in on it. This new "surface computer," as Microsoft calls it, has a multi-touch screen. Drag virtual photos to sort them, flick an on-screen globe to spin it and so on. You manipulate objects on the screen with your fingers. The 30-inch screen sits 21 inches off the ground, as though it is the top of a fancy coffee table. What it was, as the world found out yesterday, was a new touch-screen computer. Already, the hype needle was in the red zone. It's going to change the way people work with their computers." "But we can't tell you what it is, or even what category. "We have a new product we want to show you," said the PR woman (I'm paraphrasing). It was just about the strangest call I'd ever received from Microsoft.
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