#pixelsense

Samsung SUR40 

If i said Microsoft Surface you probably think of one of these:

But before Microsoft made a Windows tablet called Surface, they made a Windows table called Surface. 

Well, it ran Windows under the hood but it wasn’t intended to be used like a PC. Its main input method was a touchscreen on the surface of the table. It was aimed at businesses to use in customer service environments. The cool part of the surface table was how the touchscreen worked. It didn’t work by touch, but with infra-red cameras. It also could tell when objects were placed on it with RFID.

The SUR40 was the second generation, manufactured by Samsung using Microsoft’s tech. When the Surface brand was reused for their line of tablets the table and the technology powering it were renamed PixelSense.

Unlike most of the stuff on Legacy Boot, this we did resell, so some people out there do have a use for these things. (P.S. Those legs you can see in the top image are removable)

skip to 15 seconds into the video for a demo of the PixelSense camera tech in the SUR40:

(Video: The Verge)

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-surface-pixelsense-table

https://www.samsung.com/ae/business/smart-signage/interactive-display-sur40/

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/11/microsofts-table-sized-tablet-surfaces-in-pre-order/

微軟7/11日正式發佈新成員Surface Go加入Microsoft Surface系列，這是一台為教育環境以及第一線員工 (Firstline Worker) 量身打造的二合一裝置。對正在探索知識的學生而言，每分每秒都可能發現新大陸；對於身為企業骨幹的第一線員工而言，他們直接面對客戶並解決顧客的問題，而Surface Go 可以幫助他們抓住時效提供支援，迅速滿足需求。

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The Samsung Galaxy Ace is a phone that is certainly likely to provide entry in the segment which is just below the Samsung S for Samsung. It truly is a segment which has been absolutely unexplored from the company, but it surely will likely be beginning while using launch from the Galaxy Ace. This mobile phone will likely be a cellphone which has the seems to be with the Samsung S, and also some characteristics, nevertheless it will not likely be costing as much because the flagship unit of your firm. This is the major explanation for this telephone to get extremely appealing.

The Samsung will likely be coming having a display that’s undoubtedly more compact than the display that’s noticed within the Samsung Galaxy S, but it truly is going to become particularly difficult to observe this because the differences just 0.five inches. The Samsung Ace will likely be making use of a three or more.5 inch show rather in the four inch unit that is certainly employed inside Samsung Galaxy S. That is definitely not an enormous gap between the two screens and it’s also identical circumstance with the resolution. The Samsung Galaxy might be capable of accommodating a resolution of 320 x 480 pixels inside this display, which will be just off the pace in the 480 x 800 pixels resolution that may be observed within the Samsung Galaxy S.

The Samsung is going to be coming with an internal storage that may be within the region of 158 MB. This nowhere near the level of storage which is essential to realise the amount of features that happen to be existing inside the cellphone. Therefore, Samsung have presented this telephone together with the solution to expand the memory space further. It will be doable because of the usage of external memory space playing cards inside the phone. The slots are presented from the mobile phone and a single will likely be able to add up to 32 GB by this method. The Galaxy will likely be coming with an inbuilt media participant that’s one particular from the ideal within the course. It will be not simply capable of recognise the formats that array from your MP3s to MP4s, but also the array of bitrates as well. It’s extremely challenging to obtain an inbuilt advertising participant that may recognise numerous variations.

Amongst all the frenzy with the news of Microsoft coming up with a tablet, I was wondering why it has been named as Surface. Has Microsoft run out of names that it has redundancy in its product names?

The original Microsoft Surface (tabletop computer) unveiled in 2007 has been rebranded as the Microsoft PixelSense. The new name is a return to the product’s roots. The second version of the tabletop computer (popularly called the Surface 2) has 2 million sensors built into the panel in between the pixels that tradeoff between picking visible and infrared light. The technology that powers the recognition of that data, which was around 1 gigabit per second, is something Microsoft called PixelSense. Now Microsoft calls the tabletop computer itself, the Microsoft PixelSense.

The new Microsoft Surface tablet is a mass-market consumer device unlike the tabletop computer, which is very experimental and expensive device. It somehow convinces me that the tablet needs to have a snappy name like “Surface” than the tabletop device.