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  I thought I'd put together a list of predictions for MIX 08.  Some could happen, some will happen and some could not happen, you decide! Steve Ballmer gives Keynote in black turtleneck and jeans. IE 8 demo IE 8 uses the ''Office Ribbon'' toolbar. Popfly version 2.0, now with DLR SilverLight 2.0 Expression Design running on a ...

I think that surface and gesture computing is going to explode over the next five years.  We're going to see it in many areas of our life.  We already are with devices like the iPhone and the HTC Touch, however Surface will bring more opportunities with it. Surface brings a larger space to interact with, and more options.  ...

After watching this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FJHYqE0RDg on the Android Demo, I have to say that the touch portion of the demo is nice.  Who knows, maybe I could create a ''copy and paste'' program for the touch device and win some of that 10 million dollar prize money.  But what I'd really like is to work ...

I found the Surface team blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/surface/default.aspx   Hopefully there be lots of cool bits coming from them.  I'd love to hear and see what apps they are creating (from a UX side) and the challenges (from a technical side).    Sean

OK, it's not really new.  I've had it for about a month.  So far I like it.  I like having Internet access, albeit slow, but 3G isn't everywhere so I don't want to have to pay ''everywhere'' prices per month.  The screen size is great.  That makes a big difference.  The form factor is just right (Apple does great ...

Apple knew what they were doing when they bought Fingerworks.  It looks like they've now patented the gesture library that all of us Fingerworks keyboard (mine is a Touchstream LP) users used for years.  And the latest patent looks very similar to previous product that they used to make.  It's basically a wide touchpad on the ...