SURFACE COMPUTING
Surface Computing is a new technology that lets people interact with computers using touch, hand gestures, and physical objects equipped with optical tags. The technology turns tabletops into dynamic canvases so users can, for example, browse their music libraries by dragging a finger across the horizontal display or maybe comparison-shop at an electronics store by simply plunking devices onto the screen.
Microsoft is the first major technology company to bring surface computing to market in a commercially ready product.This is more than just touch-screen computing. The screen, which has a set of cameras underneath it, can read 52 touches at a time, meaning small groups can work around it together. The computer can also recognize optical tags on an object, such as a digital camera with Wi-Fi. Then, by just placing the device on the tabletop, folks can automatically zip their pictures onto the computer, then edit them by hand on the screen.
Advantages and disadvantages
Advantages
1. Gives a hands on experience.
2. Gaming
3. interaction with other electronics
Disadvantages
1.Expensive
2. Software like word processors, e-mail programs, spreadsheets, databases or accounting programs are not been introduced
3 . Typing of any kind, in fact, is a nightmare when you can’t feel the keys. It’s inaccurate, slow and unsatisfying.
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