Touchtech introduces Touchtech Lima , a premium multitouch application that enables anyone to create and present premium interactive presentations using existing pictures, videos and documents. Touchtech Lima is designed for horizontal and vertical interactive displays, like the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft...

Microsoft PixelSense Development Partner, Solatys , introduces Property Sense , an application that provides a unique approach to property searching for customers visiting real estate agencies. This new app for the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense enables more informed buyers and more property...

ZDNet reports that Singapore bank DBS is deploying Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense to enhance customer interactivity and efficiency. Koh Cheng Hwee, Senior Vice President for DBS Bank's consumer banking group, said [DBS] hopes to bring more interactivity to its customers' banking experience with...

Build-A-Bear Workshop opens its first newly designed store at West County Center in St. Louis. The store is one of six that the company will open this year in select markets across the United States. The new store concept uses the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense to enhance the hands-on bear making...

Industrial Color Software and Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. are partnering to bring the GLOBALedit LightTable application to the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense . The GLOBALedit LightTable is a leading enterprise application with a 360° user interface designed specifically for several...

New games from nsquared solutions bring five new games to the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense . The games pack is available now and includes nsquared spacelanes , minesweeper , treasure hunter , jigsaw , and 21 . nsquare spacelanes Spacelanes is a fast paced action game for one...

Partners showed off their applications on the Samsung SUR40 with Microsoft PixelSense during the 2012 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Toronto. Felipe Gallegos from AFTER-MOUSE.COM showed the Swissôtel hospitality application. Jason Hartman from Teknikos showed MagicLens, GreenLit...

The Garage is back to share the Photos App -- a sample application with reusable sample controls for use with the Microsoft Surface 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK) , It's more goodness for the Microsoft PixelSense community. This seemingly straightforward application packs some important design and...

Our thanks and appreciation to Johanna Rowe, designer and Surface MVP, for sharing the following guest blog in French and English: Over the last few years developers have started working with professionals from several new fields of activity. These include ergonomists, graphics professionals and much...

Our thanks and appreciation to Johanna Rowe, designer and Surface MVP, for sharing the following guest blog in French and English : Depuis quelques années, de nouveaux métiers commencent à travailler avec les développeurs. Des ergonomes, des graphistes et plus récemment...

Guests of the Sesame Workshop are exploring "The Longest Street in the World" with the Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface . This amazing journey, brought to you by the letter "S" – Sesame Street , Second Story and SUR40 – enables children, Muppets and adults to explore the rich history of...

Bernie Lo , host of CNBC's Straight Talk with Bernie Lo , recently sat down Andrew Bradbury, founder of Hong Kong winebar Amo Eno to discuss how technology is tranforming the hospitality and retail experience. Together they discuss how Hong Kong based Amo Eno uses the Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface...

From the Surface Garage Surface Garage is a community of Microsoft employees that are passionate about Microsoft Surface , Samsung SUR40 , computer vision, and natural user interface (NUI) technologies. Last year TechCrunch reporter Devin Coldewey visited the Surface Garage wrote a great article that...

The Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft® Surface® is available in Southeast Asia for first time. This Samsung-Microsoft collaboration is now offered through Samsung channel and reseller partners in Singapore , Malaysia , Indonesia and Thailand . The SUR40 enables people to communicate, collaborate...

This post is adapted from an original French article by Benoit Landon of Gizmodo.fr - 28 March 2012 Mazda and Microsoft recently held an event showcasing the new Mazda CX-5 crossover vehicle. The two companies used the opportunity to discuss their partnership and envision how products like Samsung...

When David Brown comes to town you know you're in for a treat. He is a recognized leader in Surface application design and development, going back to the early days of Microsoft Surface 1.0. His latest project "NUIverse," a whimsical play on words inviting people to explore the universe through natural...

I’m glad to see so many people excited to get their Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface (“SUR40”) units delivered. SUR40 is reaching customers in over 20 countries right now, and some of the unboxing videos, like this one , have been really fun to watch. I’ve also seen that a...

Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft ® Surface ® (“SUR40”) is at this year’s National Retail Federation (NRF) Conference where retailers are getting hands-on with a showcase of new solutions developed for the Microsoft Surface 2.0 platform. Swing by Javits Center Hall 1A17 to experience...

A recent article by Megan Garber of the Nieman Journalism Lab shows how the New York Times Company R&D Lab is using Surface to envision the not to distant future where reading the newspaper on a tabletop is commonplace. According to the article, they are "betting breakfast will be less about sharing...

Today I’m excited to share with you resources that should improve our partner’s ability to design and develop Surface Applications to support the next generation device – the Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface. We are going to launch a “center of excellence” for Surface...

Today marks the release of a video the Surface team put together highlighting the power of PixelSense™. Microsoft’s PixelSense, in the new Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface, allows a display to recognize fingers, hands, and objects placed on the screen, enabling vision-based interaction...

Bart Roozendaal is one of the members of our thriving Dutch Microsoft Surface community, CEO of Sevensteps , and a Surface MVP .  When Bart was in Redmond for the Microsoft MVP Summit, he stopped by our studio to show me a couple of the applications Sevensteps produced for Surface on the new Samsung...

There are some great combinations in life. Peanut butter and chocolate. Ernie and Burt. Bacon and Maple Bars. That last one might be a bit polarizing. Here’s one I think we might agree on. Dr. Holly Yanco over at UMass Lowell’s Robotics Lab tipped me off on this today. Microsoft Surface + Parrot AR Drone...

Back in 1968, Clinique debuted as the world’s first dermatologist developed cosmetics brand, before futuristic tools such as Microsoft Surface were invented. But this is 2011, and the innovative team at Clinique is bringing Surface to The Clinique Smart Bar ™ . The Clinique experience on Surface is perfect...

The MIX11 Open Call voting closes at Midnight PST on February 4th . If you are interested in attending Surface-related sessions at MIX , make sure you vote them up. You can vote for 10 of your favorite sessions. Below are some of the sessions I picked from the list that included Microsoft Surface , leading...