Reply to Nick Ryan
Here is a quote from you.
"Notice something about all the examples? It's only used in the dark, which is nice considering that on average it's dark only 50% of the time!"
Where is your head at? If you have gone to http://surface.com and saw the videos you would have noticed that in every video, at least one of the demos had light in the room and you could see perfectly well just like any other screen. Also on the Today Show on NBC Bill Gates demoed Surface and that was in light too.
You also said:
"multiple point touchscreen interfaces aren't an especially new technology."
Uhh.. No one said that Multi-Touch was new, what they said was it was new for a computer to recognize other objects and respond to them (i.e. the cup being placed down in "The Power" video. Or the jigsaw puzzle).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
