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22MILES Multi-Touch Directory Won Code7 Contest at Microsoft PDC 09
22MILES took the Grand Prize at the Code 7 worldwide contest for its multi-touch coding talents. 22MILES was subsequently invited to present its proprietary "22MILES Multi-Touch Wayfinding" software at Microsoft PDC09 in Los Angeles, as the #1 team from the North America region.
From a research, wayfinding is one of the greatest sources of stress related to Hospital. The shoppers will never forget so many people crowd in front of a shopping mall directory. Targeting to simplify our daily life, 22MILES Multi-Touch Directory makes an innovative system for visitors in shopping malls, hotels, office buildings, and hospitals, to use every day faster and easier, with fewer computer interaction, simpler navigation, and easier ways to connect. The multitouch gestures, such as zoom, rotate, pinch, helps to bridge the direct communications between visitors and their locations, destinations, and building promotions.
The Code 7 contest was launched for software developers worldwide to showcase their coding talents in the new Windows 7 OS. The winning Multi-Touch Directory Software Suite is one of 22MILES multi-touch retail software packages for businesses, which widely provide supports for various multitouch devices, and the flexible deployment options on Windows 7 and Windows XP. It won for the enhanced multi-touch libraries and supports for Windows 7 and business, especially after the Windows 7 greatly boosted the new multi-touch screen market.
Compared to traditional directory in public places, 22MILES Multi-Touch Directory remarkably lowers the maintenance cost and reduces the management time, without extra customization. Even with little technical background, the building managers can drag & drop all management information for real estates, such as rooms, parking lots, floors, facilities, and so on. The latest discount and promotion information from tenants are able to update simultaneously. The location based technology helps to provide more locally practical information to the public. In addition, the kiosk version automatically transits from ads screen saver to home page when a visitor approaches.
Since the CES exhibition in January 2009, 22MILES has kept ahead of other rivals in the natural user interface design and implementations for business solutions. Such applications are proven to offer visitors a deep visual impact and engaging customer experience, which are 2 most important factors in companies’ sales demonstration and marketing campaign. While the integration with RFID, Bluetooth, and iPhone, makes business more eye-catching for their personalized services and promotions.
22MILES multi-touch products and videos can be reached at http://www.interactive2.com/
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Microsoft Surface?
Is the microsoft surface going to be like an actual computer... like, can you surf the web, play games, install new software? Also, is there an actual OS on it?
Cuz all I've seen are the videos of people playing with pictures, and if that's all it does, then I think it's stupid 
Came directly from Wikipedia
Sorry it is so long, but it answers your question
Microsoft Surface (Codename: Milan), is a forthcoming product from Microsoft which is developed as a software and hardware combination technology that allows a user, or multiple users, to manipulate digital content by the use of natural motions, hand gestures, or physical objects. It was announced on May 29, 2007 at D5 conference, and is expected to be released by commercial partners in November 2007. Initial customers will be in the hospitality businesses, such as restaurants, hotels, retail, and public entertainment venues.
Surface is essentially a Windows Vista PC tucked inside a black table base, topped with a 30-inch touchscreen in a clear acrylic frame. Five cameras that can sense nearby objects are mounted beneath the screen. Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by setting real-world items tagged with special barcode labels on top of it.
Surface has been optimized to respond to 52 touches at a time. During a demonstration with a reporter, Mark Bolger, the Surface Computing group's marketing director, "dipped" his finger in an on-screen paint palette, then dragged it across the screen to draw a smiley face. Then he used all 10 fingers at once to give the face a full head of hair.
In addition to recognizing finger movements, Microsoft Surface can also identify physical objects. Microsoft says that when a diner sets down a wine glass, for example, the table can automatically offer additional wine choices tailored to the dinner being eaten.
Prices will reportedly be $5,000 to $10,000 per unit. However Microsoft said it expects prices to drop enough to make consumer versions feasible in 3 to 5 years.
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Microsoft "Surface" - The Possibilities
Microsoft boss says future computers will recognize you
Microsoft's Kinect accessory for the Xbox gaming console sold eight million units in 60 days – in a radical new approach to gaming, it uses a camera simply to "read" a user's movements and insert them into a video game. "You are the controller" is the slogan, and, in short, the device allows people to take up bowling, tennis and much more, simply by standing in front of their TV screens. According to Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer, the Kinect way of working offers a taste of how we will interact with computers. It is, he says, a "natural user interface" that, along with voice, will redefine the future of computers. Increasingly autonomous computers, Mundie suggests, will complete tasks that humans will think too mundane.
According to Mundie, however, the idea of "gesture, touch and voice" as a new, default way of controlling complicated machines is only a means to an end: "For a long time, the computer has been used as a tool. We have been trying to work out how to make it more like a helper, so that it acts with a degree of autonomy, understands you, and starts to become intuitive." In the nearer future, however, is likely to see computers simply "complete tasks autonomously," says Mundie. "In the same way as when you have a team of people and you ask them to do a task, and then they complete it autonomously."
To make the most of this new vision, Mundie says we'll start to think of computers on a small, mobile scale, via laptops and PCs and then on a larger, room-size level. "People will," he says, "interact on the walls. We are already seeing this through things like telepresence. There will be screens that people carry around with them and unroll and use them on the wall." That may sound implausible. In fact, however, Mundie suggests that the technology we're using will become increasingly inconspicuous, even though "moving forward there will be more robust identity mechanisms" to protect security. "What we've been working on is how to map better what you're thinking to what the computer understands. Traditionally that's been by typing or clicking with a mouse but some people find that difficult." He compares the process of learning to play a video game with learning a musical instrument, and says that the natural user interface will eliminate some of that tedious process.
"Software's role is to make complicated things easier," he says. "Sometimes in the process software itself gets more complex, but it's a balance. The bulks of humanity wants simple, then humans evolve to the next level too." For some, the prospect of hidden computers on every surface may not be terribly enticing. But as Mundie puts it, "Microsoft really did change the planet. And we are just getting warmed up. There is more opportunity for world changing things now than ever before."
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I am a mobile application developer working through projects for MOCE Ltd UK and somocon Oy finland and acuezza Robertson Australia with wealthy of years mobile experience.i provide advice, feasibility studies and design/implement applications that add functionality to mobile devices in different platforms.
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