Zune Demo on Microsoft Surface
There is no doubt that Microsoft Surface is a hot product. Every time I walked by the Surface demo area at CES you had to push and shove your way to even get a look at it. I got a chance to actually touch and play with Surface and aside from touch calibration issues, it is a hot product. It will be amazing once these tables see sub $10k prices and hit consumer homes.
I checked out a few demos of Surface, but the more interesting one pertaining to this site was the Zune demo. The video below shows a simple demo of playlist management and syncing capabilities. This particular demo was build for a hotel lobby. This is cool, but it would be way more practical for consumer and home use with further integration with other devices. None the less, check out the video below.
Comments
Utew on January 14, 2008 8:05 PM
eye candy...
This thing probably has it's uses, but not for music management for me... file browsing/selecting music on a PC is 10x faster than going through all the motions it takes to collect music this way. I think they have the market defined ie large businesses/hotels/airports.
Give me good voice recognition (I said good) before this monstrosity. Cool to look at but a bit like teaching an elephant to fetch.
Nick on January 15, 2008 5:24 PM
Yes it is eye candy, but it serves the purpose to get someone interested in it. Besides the flash there is substance. This is only a demo plus it is made specially for a hotel chain. Yes I wouldn't want to use it for going through mass amounts of music (The same way I probably wouldn't want to sort all my music via coverart view on an ipod), but that is not what it is for. I think it would be really cool for business types who are trying to kill time before checking in or meeting a client to just go up to a table listen and possibly sample a couple of songs. Then they could listen to them later and if interested buy them. I could see very interesting possibilities for this type of product. I only think it is the tip of the iceburg. I believe this type of multi device interaction will be the norm in 10 years.
TH on January 16, 2008 8:47 AM
In that environment Surface has loads of potential - It could be used to transfer hotel or town info into your zune or perhaps an mp3 of the conference you've just attended etc etc
TH on January 16, 2008 8:48 AM
In that environment Surface has loads of potential - It could be used to transfer hotel or town info into your zune or perhaps an mp3 of the conference you've just attended etc etc
a12ctic on January 25, 2008 3:48 PM
MS S is such a gimmick...