I like the tag line: "ordering pizza, drinks, puzzles, painting…"

CNN Video uploaded a video describing the Microsoft Surface.

Are you really interested in being closer to your computer or your family? If I am able to spend less time on the computer and more time with my family then I am interested in technology.

Actually, Microsoft Surface appears to be the ultimate docking station, synchronizing software, and social networking application. Instead of gathering around the water cooler, employees can gather around the Microsoft Surface and share the latest ideas.

Imagine one large conference table sized computer - and everyone sitting around the table able to share ideas.

Demonstration shows multi-touch, multi-user, object recognition (Domino tagging), and some applications such as photo sharing. Discussion of the menu being available at a bar.

And Microsoft will also demonstrate its multitouch Microsoft Surface, which turns an ordinary tabletop into an interactive surface.

I closed out this week speaking with Nigel Keam, Architect, and Mark Bolger, Director of Marketing for Microsoft Surface.  Both are very proud of their product and have every reason to be….

Some of those we saw before in the Surface announcement, some of them—like the water app—are new, and quite neat. Besides the water app, which you can swish your hand around on to make waves, there’s the video puzzle, a finger paint program, a music app, photo app, casino app, a T-Mobile demo app that lets you see specs of any phone, and the dining app.

Essentially, Microsoft Surface is a computer embedded in a medium-sized table, with a large, flat display on top that is touch-sensitive. The software reacts to the touch of any object, including human fingers, and can track the presence and movement of many different objects at the same time. In addition to sensing touch, the Microsoft Surface unit can detect objects that are labeled with small “domino” stickers, and in the future, it will identify devices via radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags.

The product that Microsoft unveiled recently under the name “Surface” isn’t a technology, a reference design, a user interface, an application, a PC or an appliance. It’s furniture.

Whether the product is furniture or a PC, the idea is a nice addition to the living room. Actually, large surface areas are an excellent way to extend productivity. After all, I use the Tablet PC in the living room. Why not the Table PC?