Vacation time

Hello to everyone from California.  This week my family is on vacation in California.  Yesterday we thought it would be fun to take the little tyke to Disneyland.  She loved it.  So did I.  But the reason that I’m writing this post is because while we were there we went to the Innoventions exhibit in the Tomorrowland section.  It looks like they recently updated the facility because they had Media Center systems all over the place.  Everywhere you looked was another Media Center PC or a Control4 wall panel or a digital photo frame in one size or another.  It was all based on HP equipment – touch screens, monitors, printers, etc, etc.  There were a bunch of Xbox360s and lots of other displays like that. 

The other thing that caught my attention there was the Microsoft Surface.  If you aren’t aware of what it is, it’s a multitouch input/display device.  It is able to track as many fingers as you want to use.  This is the first time that I’ve seen one of these in person although I’ve been following the technology for a number of years.  In fact, it has interested my so much in recent weeks that I’ve started collecting pieces to build my own over the last two months.  So although it will probably take a few months to build it up, keep your eyes on the website here because I plan to blog about my build process.  When it’s all done I intend to do a guide that you guys can all follow if you find yourself interested and want to build one for yourself.

That’s all I’ve got for now folks.  Back to the warm sun.
Tim (Lothar)