4. Users can interact with the machine by touching or dragging their fingertips and objects such as paintbrushes across the screen, or by placing and moving tagged objects.
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6. Surface has been optimized to respond to 52 touches at a time. Microsoft Surface can also identify physical objects.
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8. In 2003, the team presented the idea to the Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, in a group review.
9. A similar concept was used in the 2002 science fiction movie Minority Report and in the 2005 science fiction movie The Island, by Sean Bean's character "Merrick". CNTD . . . .
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12. The software platform runs on Windows Vista and has wired Ethernet 10/100, wireless 802.11 b/g, and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity.
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14. Direct interaction refers to the user's ability to simply reach out and touch the interface of an application in order to interact with it
15. Multi-touch contact refers to the ability to have multiple contact points with an interface, unlike with a mouse, where there is only one cursor.CNTD . . . .
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17. The technology allows non-digital objects to be used as input devices. In one example, a normal paint brush was used to create a digital painting in the software.
18. The system does not rely on restrictive properties required of conventional touch screen or touchpad devices.CNTD . . . .
