microsoft surface
April 24th, 2008 by Dave AllenNate, friend of Nemo, went out to play with Microsoft’s new Surface interface. There’s more info here at the Surface blog.
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April 25th, 2008 at 2:52 am
My first impression with the machine reminded me of sitting down at a Pacman
table in a bar. The location of the surface was housed in the Bear Stearns
building in the financial district, surrounded by lots of money and failing
banks.
Aside form that bullshit. The table was straight forward Point of Sale
machine. It uses a new type of barcode that uses circles instead of lines.
These tags were printed out on a laser printer and scotch taped onto the
phones. (seems pretty basic plus it replaces the salesman)
Some of my initial ideas.
Boutique style Retail store displays only one of each item for sale giving
an idea of exclusivity. The item has a specially designed tag, coin, or
object to be placed on the surface for more information or ordering
capabilities.
Custom ordering. With lots of interactive technical information.
Send out flyers or online promotionn that’s printable to bring into the
store to put onto the surface to see if you won something.
While using the surface at a retail location the user can communicate with
people using the web store all over the world and see what items everyone is
shopping for.
Selling music is as simple as placing the barcode on a guitar pick or oany
riginal art that activates purchased music.
Craps would work really cool! -turntables for mixing tunes- top view of
record spinning for music playback – rotation mount to go from surface to
screen – in paint bring up masterpieces that the user can alter.
NATE