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Harrah's Rolls Dice on Surface

Kevin Spak — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:27:35 CDT

A Las Vegas casino has become the first to roll the dice with the much-touted Microsoft Surface, a touch-screen table that lets gamblers order drinks, watch YouTube videos, and even flirt. Harrah’s Rio hotel yesterday installed 6 of the tables, which start at $10,000, the AP reports. “Of all...

Meet the Next Big Interface: Multitouch

Kevin Spak — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:00:00 CST

The iPhone was just the coming-out party: The gesture-based touch commands the phone uses, writes Walter Mossberg in today’s Wall Street Journal , have since been ported everywhere from the Macbook Air laptop to a Microsoft coffee-table-sized computer to iPhone wannabes exhibited all over the recent Consumer Electronics Show. Multitouch could...

Microsoft Surface Plays Hard to Get

Sam Gale Rosen — Wed, 30 May 2007 11:24:11 CDT

The bottom line on Surface, Microsoft's touch-sensitive table being unveiled today? The possibilities are exciting, says PC World 's Harry McCracken, but the roll-out is annoying. Surface—which skips a mouse in favor of an index finger—can interact with multiple users, and even objects. But, too expensive to be...