{"id":819,"date":"2007-06-14T00:42:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T23:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/getting-tactile.htm"},"modified":"2008-11-19T14:42:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-19T14:42:45","slug":"getting-tactile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/06\/getting-tactile.htm","title":{"rendered":"Getting tactile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/surface-ripple.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Finger creating surface ripple\" \/>2007 seems to be the year of touch computing.  It started at MacWorld with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/pr\/library\/2007\/01\/09iphone.html\">the Apple iPhone announcement<\/a>.  Then, HTC introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.htc.com\/product\/03-product_htctouch.htm\">a touch phone that runs Windows<\/a> (before the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/iphone\/\">iPhone<\/a> made it to market).  Now, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/surface\/\">Microsoft has come up with Surface<\/a> &#8211; a table that runs Windows using a touch-screen interface to very good effect.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not really sure that this is a product that&#8217;s going anywhere fast (and I&#8217;ll spare you the Bill Gates demo &#8211; the Associated Press one is less likely to send you to sleep) but Microsoft is constantly being criticised for a lack of innovation and as a concept, Surface is certainly interesting.  Personally, I can&#8217;t wait.  Not to have an expensive coffee table upon which to bore people with digital photos (I can already do that with the TV!) but because I can feel a return to the &#8220;Space Invaders&#8221; tabletop video games of my youth coming on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2007 seems to be the year of touch computing. It started at MacWorld with the Apple iPhone announcement. Then, HTC introduced a touch phone that runs Windows (before the iPhone made it to market). 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