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Not to advertise for the company I’ll soon be working for… but this is indeed pretty cool stuff. If the costs can be lowered significantly it may just make it big.

Microsoft Surface – multi-touch, multi-user interface, object recognition and gestural interaction
(Watch the middle “The Power” video if you’re only going to watch one, I think that’s the coolest)

and apparently its not all big dreams… limited 2007 rollouts in T-Mobile stores, Starwood hotels, and Harrah’s in Vegas. Runs on a 1G stock Vista box =p.

The coolest part about all this is…. I actually saw Bill Gates demo this at the 30th Anniversary Company Meeting when I was interning there 😐 that was….. 1.5 years ago….. I think he did some cool stuff like OCRing business card and populating the info onto a PDA wirelessly (bluetooth or sth? not sure). Showed some stuff with photos too. Never thought it would actually be released as a MS product though =p.