Thursday, January 6, 2011

CES 2011: What Microsoft Is Doing Right? A 60 Second Display.


So you've certainly by now heard from ROQ the full story on Microsoft's Keynote at CES 2011, however, I wanted to venture into the quite brief details Microsoft released on it's most innovative device in show - The "Surface."  This device is the mother of all tablet PCs, with greater scale than most people might use, and greater technology that has grown even stronger in the last three years.


Microsoft demoed for a brief period this large table, which can apparently be mounted to a wall if you would prefer it as a television-style computer.  In this table lies a Dual-Core PC, running a very sophisticated new piece of technology, which enables the device to thin itself a good few inches, and to much more successfully record data as it is input into the device.  This device, created by Samsung, is labeled "PixelSense." PixelSense will record data from refracted infrared light, projected by each pixel on the screen, giving a very responsive screen that has the potential to read documents using Optical Character Recognition, considering it's great level of sensitivity.

Topped with Gorilla Glass, which can apparently withstand a full can of soda dropped from a short height without damage, the device is set out to become your everyday desktop - Literally.  Above it's former version in technology and size, with PixelSense and another 10 inches in scale, this device will now also offer one more, very important benefit in sales:  It's cheaper!  Cheaper by five-thousand big ones, listed at $7,500 USD, this device is clearing into a new probability of falling into the extremely-high-average consumer's home.

As innovative as the tech is, don't expect this technology to become smaller any time soon, though it would solve the world's depleting mineral resource issues with developing existing touch screens, Samsung doesn't plan to downsize the technology's scale in the near future.  Let's just hope that for Microsoft's sake, by the time these tables only costs us $1,500 USD, there's a Windows 8 platform that makes anyone want to buy one from them, eh?

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