What's on the Surface

Guest blogger Lance Jungmeyer here ...

If you are reading this post, you are probably doing it through some software or hardware that has ties to Bill Gates.

In the future, your computer may be on your desktop. Gates recently unveiled Surface, a new computing platform that could change everything. (Yeah, we've all heard that before.)

A user basically touches a screen, drags items by fingertip, increases the size of an item by spreading the fingers wider apart, etc. The computer will allow more than one user to manipulate it at once, which could be handy in group meetings.

"The radical new approach starts with the guts of the device itself. Under the impact-resistant plastic top skin on an otherwise nondescript table hide five infrared scanners, a projector, and a wireless modem. The scanners recognize objects and shapes placed on the top and respond to them accordingly."

Put a wi-fi camera on top of the Surface and it automatically downloads the pictures.

I wonder how a computer such as this could be integrated into the world of fresh produce.