Touch Desk Concept by Microsoft Designed to Replace Conventional Work Station

On the surface, no pun intended, the touch desk concept by Microsoft just looks like a glorified tablet PC, but when you delve a little deeper, you discover that it's actually more than that. Designed to replace a conventional work station, the Touch Desk lets you scan documents, convert them to text, move them around just like you would on a normal desk, and file them away for later viewing.


In the background, you have all the pertinent information required to run a huge manufacturing plant, including a map of the whole plant and what's going on in each sector. There's no keyboard or mouse: it's all about the "visualization of information." You search for items with your voice, for example, and then you can scribble on them using the "inking" function.

Now we just have to wait for the consumer application.




Written by Monica Tele
Published in Technology News