{"id":230,"date":"2007-05-30T10:57:37","date_gmt":"2007-05-30T15:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/30\/microsoft-coffee-table\/"},"modified":"2007-05-30T11:10:38","modified_gmt":"2007-05-30T16:10:38","slug":"microsoft-coffee-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/30\/microsoft-coffee-table\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Coffee Table"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At midnight last night, Microsoft announced something that looks more like an Apple technology than anything I have seen come out of Redmond in a while.  It&#8217;s called Surface Computing and I still can&#8217;t find anything about it on the MS web site.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a Popular Mechanics video showing the &#8220;coffee table&#8221; in action.<embed src=\"http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f8\/271552687\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" flashVars=\"videoId=933742930&#038;playerId=271552687&#038;viewerSecureGatewayURL=https:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services\/amfgateway&#038;servicesURL=http:\/\/services.brightcove.com\/services&#038;cdnURL=http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com&#038;domain=embed&#038;autoStart=false&#038;\" base=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" name=\"flashObj\" width=\"460\" height=\"390\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" swLiveConnect=\"true\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed>Using wireless and other &#8220;invisible&#8221; technologies, the user can easily move files from device to device.  The video shows how a photo can go from the camera, to the table and then to a PDA all with no wires using an interface that doesn&#8217;t require training.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a TED video from last year showing Jeff Han, one of the developers of multi-touch screens.  As the speaker emphasizes over and over&#8230; the interface disappears.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"460\" height=\"379\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UcKqyn-gUbY\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/UcKqyn-gUbY\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"460\" height=\"379\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At midnight last night, Microsoft announced something that looks more like an Apple technology than anything I have seen come out of Redmond in a while. It&#8217;s called Surface Computing and I still can&#8217;t find anything about it on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/05\/30\/microsoft-coffee-table\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}