About a three or four years ago I was participating in a technology demo workshop where they had this Microsoft Surface Interactive Multi-touch tabletop to show. They introduced us some photo viewing abilities, maps, games and all kind of effect demos it could pull off and boy was I impressed then [1]!
I´m somewhat of a fan of CSI (the original series),but I have always thought that they really exaggerate about their technology and computer software [2]. But as I watched the demo go on and played with the tabletop myself, I felt that those computers I work with really suck and how old-fashioned it is to use mouse and keyboard when you could do all these fancy things with just touch of a finger.
But the point of the workshop was not to show off with those fancy tech demos, but to really show us how easy it is to do group work on shared screen with that kind of system. We sat around the table, each seeing each other and we could do things simultaneously or take turns by rotating the view. I thought then that if working would be like this, it would feel like playing a party game all the time.
Here is alternative for student budjet [3]:
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WIkrQu0-v0
[2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX_i2vhnVKQ
[3]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQpr3W-YmcQ&feature=player_embedded
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