Microsoft Surface Sphere

[roiurei12]

GANTZ



[DaGavinX]

GANTZ!!!!!!!!!!

[zealien]

Wow, really really amazingly useless.

[cbielite]

Looks like this video was shot in 1974.

[jerryfinsternumber9]

@cbielite Or on a phone

[lightning7master]

ITS GANT!!!!

[nathanieldurkin1]

This is cool, but there is also Microsoft toilet which flushes into any country of the world. For a cheaper price you can buy a portable digital projector connect to a computer and just shine the image on to random pieces of furniture in your house. Wait for someone to walk by and then scream, "it's the future! Look what I've created! My refrigerator is now a virtual cube!"

[karmatetra]

Yes, the obvious application would be to project Google Earth data. That would be enormously beneficial.

[cowgoesmoo2]

Hoe snap, take that apple!

[megadetroyer100]

@cowgoesmoo2 you´re right! ;)

[pascbjumper2]

Not useful for as a household object, no. But the technology exists, and that's the point. If somebody finds a way to use it, great. But it's random research like this which makes progress in the US.

[Lexdude0]

They made it a surface... they made it a sphere... now make it into a woman!

[LouSaydus]

Being able to zoom in on those close ups in porn with two simple touches would be absolutely revolutionary, can't wait to get one!

[eurozone69]

both apple and microsoft are great, damn people stop hating, both companies have given us great things!



[ybunnygurl]

I see a good application of this in museums, This is a awesome way to present information. Just becasue its a tec toy does not mean its application is for home. And Video game company own more of this type of tec than apple or Microsoft.

[gir4evr]

wait a minute. so whats the point of it?

[cowgoesmoo2]

@gir4evr A bunch of fucking cookies.

[PastorDEVIL]

apple ist best of... fucking microsoft

[kbungiex]

@PastorDEVIL fuck your ass bitch

[kbungiex]

@PastorDEVIL apple products sucks , also apples touch screen products is a fail

[computerclimax]

i am not amazed.....do better.....think like the people at mac.

[kbungiex]

@computerclimax well apple products , like you and your comment

[tek1001]

Yup, I want one of those on my desk. Sure I do. Are they going to come out with a version I can keep in my pocket?

[TheMoney713]

hahahaha........... microsoft hastu use an old ass projector and 5 cameras to make a touchscreen. thank god the people at apple wher smart enough to patent all their ideas!!hahahaha

[ThePenguinsAreBack]

thats retarted -_-

[Chinaheartforever]

iBall?

[roflhax]

you dont know the difference between Apple and Microsoft, do you?

[HyperFoxIII]

modern day crystal ball?

[isokessu]

LoL when i started watching this i was thinking that, it would be so cool to have ball like this where's google earth or something O_o but then at 2:15 he actually launched some map with it!

[1systemofadown1]

wats the name of the game..again..wonna play..lol-.haha

[27078323]

funny

[havocfan12]

omg my mom kicked me out of the basement and called me a lonely skinny fag. so im going to go play on my giant touchscreen ball

[Cryocaustic]

@havocfan12 pretty sure he is a programmer with a better job and salary than yours.

[yuseroner]

@bertos333

jajajajaja : )

[kregzdeM3]

@bertos333 Sort of. Girl might look quite fat tho.

[Fomze]

@bertos333 the innovative technology is for porn!

[BenjaminProd]

@bertos333 porn on your thing would be revolutionary!

[Pauliaxxx21]

They could add google earth to this sphere so it could show whole world and you could zoom the place which you want

[sparkloweb]

I believe this is called thinking outside the box.

[pascbjumper2]

It's a toy. An extremely impressive toy.. but a toy.

I wonder who they could sell it to...  could you have one sphere in one room, another in another room, and look through each others cameras? That'd be pretty cool. Maybe integrate this into gaming with.. the Xbox?

[Seiku]

Maybe it can pilot future space ships *imagination*

[BlueDragon4484]

Google earth On Fullscrene >:D

[60groszy]

who needs that kind of shit anyway?

waste of money

[dauntSilver]

if you uploaded google earth to this, it would be like you are god.

[vegetag2001]

I totally agree! It would be tons of fun (make an app to nuke parts of the planet too lol)

[Riotstarter100]

@vegetag2001 lol Thats genius xD

[zaibolint]

@dauntSilver or like if u had a simple desk globe?!

[mrswartz]

@dauntSilver you sir, are no where near God. you can join the darkside, or good side but you're not God. =|

[TioPaleshadow]

@mrswartz

who is you to say such dump O.o

its really not the place to discuss relegious matters

btw relegion is outdatet.... its like you still want a horse to ride if there is a car allready... money rules the world so money is god.... like you se the man with the most money ist god XD

[mrswartz]

@TioPaleshadow i was being sarcastic lol

[TioPaleshadow]

@mrswartz

well then sorry but there are much people out there with heavy reality issuses wich are still want to burn down whiches O.o

[nathanieldurkin1]

@TioPaleshadow so do you worship Bill Gates or Steve Jobs? They both have a lot of money. And which of these gods cure diseases and do miracles? None of them. Your money gods are weak creatures who can't fix their own lives with money. I will not bow before your gods.

[leodavester5]

BSOD Sphere!

[Sasherra]

Send it to the other side so that you don't have to see it, and so you can free up space...

What is with your typing, anyway?

[BurstBrain2001]

except the global....i cannot see any other usage of this "ball". Table version is much better!

[rono243]

agreed i mean i dont wana hug a ball to get a picture or video i just was trying to save for later arnt computer suposed to be a way to sit on your ass and do nothing

[Dangoxs]

i think that in the future the tech will improve and there will be better uses for it

[RemoteTechnology2012]

We are searching for a developer.

[MrBAYARDO2]

nice

[rivengle]

plus, if any of your apple fanboy friends get angry, you can always have them stand there and say: "yeah, a bit more to the left, more, more, good. " Then you can hurl it at them. IT'S A TECHNOLOGICAL BOWLING BALL!

[ipete6]

lol i thought this was a parody ......it looks hard to watch a movie on

[havanissa]

so Microsoft expect this to replace the fortuneteller's crystal bowl?

[JakeChaos666]

lol.

bowl...

[GarethandSarah]

I want microsoft surface octagon.

[Alililele]

and i want: "Ms surface rubiks cube" XDDDD

[Denis150386]

I thinks that is the bad idea :(

[telmer6]

We are animals biologically: we are mammals. What you choose to believe is up to you, but technically we are .zip archives (I mean animals).

[OblivionMon]

With many presuppositions that you have not shown the veridicality of. Of course I merely am contending with the thin world in which you reside and I think for good reason.

[quelorepario]

by the way, I imagine future generations kids going to fortune tellers pointing their finger at a crystal ball and asking: what version is this sphere?

hahehaha, definitely technology is killing the magic, and maybe this is the root of the fear that all creationists have toward science.

[Darthshepius]

Its a good think to kill superstitons =)

[TroutFink]

Why the fuck is everyone debating if we're animals or not?

Get out in the sun and play, life's too short to be pondering idiot ideals...Douche Nozzels

[LightcycleChampion]

lol screen in background

[JaXNashphun]

lol "two of us... actually, a couple of us...."

[YoshiMario69]

Okay, so sphere would make it easier for kids to approach things like topography, but how would you make it available to all kids, regardless of income? I don't see Microsoft giving these away to kids in Costa Rica, India, or any other place people consider "third world countries"

If you want to help kids learn, build a school, if you want to feed them, teach them to feed themselves, and help them gather the tools necessary for doing so.

[aniruddhahar]

Be careful when you use the term Third World country. It doesn't translate to 'poor nation'. It was a term that was misleading even during the cold war era, when it originated. There were basically two groups back then, the US and their allies, and the USSR and their allies. Any nation not belonging to any of these groups was considered a Third World nation. It was not something based on the economic profile of that country. Otherwise Costa Rica and India have no reason to be grouped together.

[YoshiMario69]

Thus the quotes.

[aniruddhahar]

How is that helping?

[Xerferic]

But hey keep doing your bit...

[Xerferic]

you cant save the world give it up. Enjoy what life you have left and then die. And the starving children cant be saved its the fucking parents that are breeding like rabbits whilst also having aids but still having more kids, just giving birth left right and center. I dont think giving the kids food will solve the problem, as sad as this sounds the solution is to kill them all. Cause they are just a big loop that cant be broken by helping.

[YoshiMario69]

The problem is people that give up, people that take advantage of people that give up, and the results of the abuse.

Obviously you can't save the world, but you can always help ease the pain.

The better thing to do is not to give a starving man a fish, but to teach him how to fish.

[Xerferic]

I would rather help animals than people. Because everything wrong with animals is all humans faults.

[YoshiMario69]

Don't worry, mother nature'll probably kill us all before we completely destroy our own planet =]

[Xerferic]

if by mother nature you mean ourselfs then yes you maybe right.

[az015]

why do u want to help animals and not people? there are plenty of good people out there, its the minority that ruin it for everybody.. what did an animal do 4u?do u think they would help you rather than themselves?

[Xerferic]

well about 99% of animals problems are peoples fault. And sure there are good people out there. But as you say the minority ruins it and always ruins it. Theres always gona be that minority and we can't change that.

[radxcore77]

we are animals, if you believe in evolution.

if you don't get with the program:P

[dfsc33n]

ok one, 99% my ass. and two we were not animals "if" you believe in evolution, we were Neanderthals, one half of the group became apes, monkeys, and, chimps. while the another group became what we know as humans. we were never animals.

[ainsleyp]

We are just the most intelligent animal.

[BeakyRed]

actually mice are

[Wriggler2]

We are animals.

Or is a dog not an animal because he's a dog? Very strange argumentation!

And where did the Neanderthals came from?

And they didn't become humans! They died out. They are another line af the homo species.

[dfsc33n]

you guys are sooo retarded, why dont you read a biology book or something, my dads a biologist

[Wriggler2]

If your dad is really a boilogist then you should go and ask him if we are animals and what happened to the neanderthals! Then you will see that we are animals!

But I don't believe he is. You are just a strange nerd on the net trying to get some attention.

[Theronguardaaah]

We killed the neanderthals monkeys are naturally more violent towards one another and especially other species of monkeys.

Thats one reason our societies are so violent towards other factions.

We just wear clothes and have tech.

People want us to go back to nature and such well we really do need to preserve it. We left our natural habitat because it sucked that's it throwing away technology would be really stupid.

Sorry Wriggler just ranting.

[lynth]

I loev trollz. >:3

[lynth]

wow, that is the most stupid and uneducated comment I've ever... EVER read. buy yourself a book about biology. (Or just about logik, you don't need knowledge about biology to figure out what's fucked up xD)

haha, oh wow...

[quelorepario]

It is incredible and paradoxical that in the most technologically advanced country in the world have the biggest proportions of creationists.

Also it is amusing to see people negating reality just because of their religious beliefs. These guys are making the same mistakes that the Catholic church made five centuries ago. The irony of ironies is that a monolithic religion as the Catholic Church embraces science and the "new" and "reformed" Christian schismatic ones are retrograded to stoneage.

[YoshiMario69]

I could come up with something to help the children, sure, and I actually do my part, than you. What I'm angry about is all these people that are more than capable of drastically changing the world for the better, would rather focus on making it more enjoyable to play with pictures. Tell me how many people the iBar and Sphere are helping?

[powerone1]

Maybe you should be put in charge of what people can create and what has value. I'm sure that you think that anything that simply gives people more joy and pleasure in life is some how hurting the world.

Maybe we should all sleep on a bed of nails to remind us of the suffering of the world.

The sphere will make it more pleasurable and interesting to access information, especially for children. Children love to touch and explore. I can see this used as a valuable tool in education.

[YoshiMario69]

Did i ever say it was hurting the world? I said it's not helping.

Sleeping on a bed of nails has nothing to do with understanding and the comprehension of people's suffering in the world. The pain would signify repentance, something with which I deeply disagree, as it will only show you pain for a few moments, and will gradually fade away, while true suffering stays engraved in one's mind. Feeling pain does not make you understand anything, it only brings shame of acts committed.

*rnp*

[fsevi85]

Does this porn too ?

[borknagarh]

esa cosa es una mamada. para que crear mas basura?

[gtEvilPoke]

wow, while one person looks at photo album on one side another person can be looking at porn on the other! fantastic!

[YoshiMario69]

We don't NEED this, but people that don't give a damn about the starving children all over the world and don't know what else to do with their money can now fuck around with google earth in a whole new way... WOW

[powerone1]

YoshiMario69, I guess we should all live in a cave, that way everyone would be able to eat. :)

[YoshiMario69]

God bless you, y que Jesus perdone tu ignorancia.

[powerone1]

You don't need to pardon my ignorance, you need to check your own ignorance. It is through technology that we will be able to feed more of the world. Everything that allows people to access information will only serve to help people understand and solve the problems of this world.

Instead of judging people for being creative, why don't you try to use your own brain to create solutions to help the starving children?

[YoshiMario69]

You don't understand at all do you? It's obvious when something isn't created to help all mankind, this is one of those cases. It is just an advancement in luxury, and not one of science, medics, or education.

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[Gonamez]

Very cool! The touch need some improving though

[ClipzTDOT]

whats the point of it, use a photo album

[PrinceOfFunky1994]

lol the funny sphere

[AndrewR0pe]

There are apps

[StvnBrkbck]

sure...

[generaleskimo]

Dear god that is completely useless. I love playing with the surface table, but this just looks excessive.

[camoy0]

is just a joke you ass hole. this is not real so stop geting so upset

[generaleskimo]

Actually it's not a joke.

blog.seattlepi.nwsource . com/microsoft/archives/144629.­asp

blogs.zdnet . com/microsoft/?p=1243

[GodzillaGlenn]

As a social studies teacher I would love to have surface technology on a globe for students to interact with. Don't limit your imagination.

[tisaacso3625]

Exactly what we need. Shiny new objects to "ohh" and "aww" at instead of actual learning.

[YoshiMario69]

Anybody else feel like everyone's suddenly going all "nintendo" now? *coughtouchscreenseverywheremo­thinsensitivityaccelerometerss­ixaxysmiisavatarscough*

[Melvicrob]

Um everyone might be using ideas BUT everything that is being produced is better than any Nintendo creation

[YoshiMario69]

Meh, like it actually makes a significant impact right now on the way we live out lives, and the respect we have toward nature =P

Of course, later it might be as important a creation as the wheel, but not now, It's just bigass DS' and bigass balls you can touch to me XD

[00tonii00]

wow!! ideal for google earth!!

But i preffer ms surface original :D

[byZenn]

Yeah, that would be great for Google Earth.

[ptelmoney2]

it be cooler if you could zoom in from the satellite..and see streets and shit,,then you could just sit and watch the diffrent communities of the planet all day

[CalvinTheHamster]

its so fucking laggy and look at 1:15 he wants to "send it over" but then shrinks it... it sucks so bad

[wilmerbz]

maybe you can make a better job...

[LuckyNibb]

It was supposed to do that, nerd.

[CalvinTheHamster]

are you stupid or something it didnt do that the first time... so obviously it was not on purpose... 1:12

[LuckyNibb]

It could've also shrunk, his hand was just covering it (?). Even so, it wasn't being slow, it was just misinterpreting the command because obviously he moved his hand wrong, not that it matters anyway since it still took the same amount of time to be sent to the other side so I Don't how how you're saying it's slow.

And yeah, I wasn't serious when I said nerd, I'm too used to talking to my friend about that shit, don't take it personally.

[CalvinTheHamster]

oh dont worry i didnt.

[JamaicaGold1]

Will it be available at Toys R Us? Cuz that thing doesn´t look like serious piece of hardware. I mean, can you imagine every house with an lcd ball??? or a dumb secretary doing spread sheeting on it? It might have some uses as turist attraction at amusement parks and as a video game interfase.

[3thought]

i would like a cuboid. dont care which. just a cuboid. any will do. lol

[alvastornado]

You can play football and see tv at the same time!!!

[maxmusavi]

hahahhahwhhahah yaeh!

[nannynicklife]

look into the crystal ball and see the future

[techdude145]

buy the table or else your friends will accuse you of touching balls.

[Donedeal11]

thats gay the table is cooler

[OoATWoO]

OH JUST PUT A BIG ASS BALL IN YOUR ROOM

and call it a computer microsoft is geting fucking rediculace

[Daimyoprince]

I like the big ass table more.

[philly1537]

find it crazy the same features on the i phone look at the size and the table is fucking huge apples gonna do it better

[Hateblade]

Bla bla... collaborate actions... bla bla... Omnidirectional.. bla bla... 5 minute of practically nothing. Oh, except for an expensive job security device.

[BuzzEnWell]

Social Protocol, Social mitigation WTF? i want to know about the technology not what they want us to conform to...the public will dictate the social protocol.....!

[cyborgxxi]

It's really cool how the researchers are concerned with the social utilization of the technology - and with the issues that may come along with it.

Gotta make sure people's hands are clean before they start messing around with that sphere :)

SO COOL! I would like one when I get older haha

[mokaey]

-_- i bet you can get blue screen on that to and of course the famous (error cant open xel.dll)

[monkeytube2]

To think how the next xbox will be..

[bhatiainc]

I laugh at Apple fanatics.

Idiots!!!

[SmileHeart4ever]

AMAZING STUFF ... BTW MAC PR guys can lick my black ass, THIS IS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOUR DAMN APPLE .. IT'S MICROSOFT YOU Fuckin tiny peace of shit company .. This is DAMN INNOVATIVE Indeed ... With Live Virtual Earth and the new weather simulation stuff Amazing, Plus Imagine not only pictures around it but What Science can do with it to simulate other Planet spheres .. I LOVE IT ..

[KurpfalzAsozial]

the future is here^^

[DawgcityClev]

Some of you need to be hung to die you are so stupid. Listen to the goddamn video and he explains everything.

Planet depopulation is in full effect and well needed.

[apeacock]

How did you ever think of this,,,,,,oh that is right it is wha apple did 2 years ago. Congrats!!!

[Spitefulgod2]

Please, I implore you, tell me one thing that crapple has done that is original??

[justinsn95]

Stupid product. I would be embarassed to be the guy showing that thing off.

[jurcia]

Combine it with Google Earth and you'll get the perfect product.

[DaveandDaveid]

I get surface, but not that!

[Galoredk]

Wtf would you use this for??

[camrynComes2211]

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any body want to hit it and quit it? No strings do inside!

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[hiro6380]

cool, but i can't figure out a practical use of this thing

[r155]

thats what they use to say about computers.

about the best anybody could come up with was

housewifes could use them to keep their recipes on.

[rherlitz]

so many ways to drag around freakin images...sigh

[videodudejulco]

Does this hook up to a computer or it is on its own?

[osu9400]

The sphere is basically a touch sensitive monitor. It requires a Windows PC. This PC can be in any form, but it will be integrated under or within the sphere.

[binhoservice]

isso vai travar = o telao da Globo!

[nettosonic]

auhhuahuauhauhauh Globo Besta

[heriberto392]

wat normal person with a normal salary will buy this shit?

[osu9400]

Not directed towards a "normal person." This is a commercial facing app for hotels, schools, business lobbies, etc...

BTW, the same cool touch technology is built into Windows 7. So, those cool XP/Vista table PCs from HP and Toshiba will be even cooler with Windows 7.

[itrod123]

Gaming on that would be a bitch

[OmegaUnknow]

This is gantz!!!!

[GhettoMike88]

In my opinion i cant really see a direct practical use for this piece of equipment.. but perhaps the idea may be further developed and it could be something worthwhile. after all its only a prototype

[00rang]

I can... Demos, mall kiosks, military operations, and I could think of about 20 things to do with this in terms of orbital object management.

[Craziman123]

Yea the military would love to get there hands on this.. if they developed an application that u can pinpoint where u want your troops and taht stuff i think it would work perfectly in the military as well as a mall kiosk.

[nissanskylineR35]

get 2 of them you can have a big set a balls on your desk and sit there making jokes cos thats all there good for