GOTY: Gadget Of The Year

[Nikolai Sklobovsky]

MS got its hands on Jeff Han invention:

Home: http://www.microsoft.com/surface
Popular Mechanics: http://www.brightcove.com/title.jsp?title=933742930

And the coolest thing on Earth: I may even have a chance to work with this toy later this year:-)

[Ray West]

looks like a touch screen lcd to me, with flashy software.

I expect we'll all have to get it ;-)

Best wishes,

Ray

[Steve Saunders]

Looks impressive all the same.

[Kevin Bjorke]

What's lacking is haptic feedback. Paper on a desk IS physical.

This is why the iPhone is a poor phone, for example -- touch-screen buttons instead of buttons that you can feel with your hand and use even as you look at something else.

It's made for tech journalists, not users.