Das Buch Wer mitmacht, hat Recht!

I bet by now everyone of you have heard about Microsoft’s Surface.
We’ll it sure looks nice, but I’m almost certain that a good share of the “innovative” part is all made up and fake.
Eg. take the automatic syncing with the wireless digital camera.
How on earth are they able to “just detect the camera” (I mean, in a safe, secure and reproducible way).
Maybe it works with that camera, but what about all the others? Ye.. well, nice ‘vision’.
Happy camera tagging, go print some stickers.

Anyways, the multi-touch input is by all means nothing new and revolutionary, as pointed out in this post at the donationcoder.com forums. (direct link)

You can even build your own like some folks at c-base, berlin, germany did:
(that’s btw housetier and myself playing with it, frickin’ neat)

But there’s one thing you have to give Microsoft credit for:
PR.