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Technology worth getting excited about?

Posted in Sharp, Microsoft on May 31, 2007 at 12:01 pm

Sunshine and puppy time, then - a couple of cool bits of technology have been shown off this week, and they might actually be worth getting excited about, for the first time in ages.

Firstly, there’s Microsoft’s ‘Surface’, which looks like a coffee table and works like an incredibly cool piece of the future, being as it’s all touch-sensitive. And anything you control by touching is instantly cool (unless it’s a laptop touchpad, which are all, without exception, really annoying). The only thing that isn’t very cool is that everyone keeps talking about Minority Report with reference to Surface, which isn’t a movie you’d necessarily want to be associated with, is it?

Tom Cruise aside, Surface looks very, very interesting indeed.

And then there’s that optical media player from Sharp, which plays CDs, DVDs, HD DVDs, Blu-ray discs, uses very little power and is really small. And is supposed to cost under $100 when it goes on sale. Maybe it’s not incredibly revolutionary, though the ability to play all of those formats with one device is quite cool, but the price tag sends it shooting up the cool charts instantly. That’s just crazy cheap for a high-definition player, and all of a sudden my money’s burning a hole in my pocket…

Well, except for the fact that I broke my glasses this week, so I’m completely incapable of appreciating anything visual anyway.

Ho hum. Sunshine, puppies, and let’s all just pretend that fiasco with SixApart/Livejournal deleting 500-odd blogs for having inappropriate keywords in their interests didn’t happen.