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The Microsoft Surface may be billed as a tablet, but hiding in its 3 millimetre cover is a pressure sensitive keyboard and called Touch Cover which will allow the tablet to function more like a computer on the go.
Touch Cover connects to the Surface with magnets (much like the Apple’s Smart Cover does with the iPad), and “senses keystrokes as gestures,” according to Microsoft. Impressive as this technology may be, it’s possible we’ve seen it before; four years ago, Microsoft showed off a project at their Research fair called the unMouse Pad, which used force-sensing resistors to create a paper-thin multitouch trackpad that was also pressure sensitive. I used it myself, and it could detect all 10 fingers with great accuracy. Seems like it would have been very easy for them to shoehorn that technology into the Touch Cover. [Microsoft Surface]
Cannot wait to see what this is like, hope that the battery life is as good as the ipads though, if the usb can power exteranl HDD and it can run full desktop apps, i worry it be more than a few hours before you are out of juice! Also, microsoft need to invest some serious time in getting devs onboard and sorting out the app store as at the moment, it is rubbish, i have considered getting shot of my windows phone purely because of the lack of apps (or if the apps are in there they are 5 times as much as the iOS/android versions).