Microsoft Surface Computer

A few months ago, I posted a video of a computer interface concept that allowed you to navigate and control the computer using nothing but the screen. It seemed to me, that a multi touch interface was going to be the future of computers.
It looks like Microsoft thought so too. They recently announced a new computer platform called Microsoft surface. The entire interface of the computer is the screen.
Watch the video below to see how it works. It is pretty cool. Initially this will be marketed to restaurants and resorts, but if it does well, I can see this going mainstream.




Official website: Microsoft Surface
Via TechCrinch: Microsoft Announces Surface Computer

Programmable biocomputers to diagnose and treat disease

Researchers at Harvard University and Princeton University have discovered a way to create programmable "biocomputers" entirely out of DNA, RNA, and proteins. These bio computers can make basic boolean(true vs. false) evaluations based on things that individual cells in the body are doing. They can then help in diagnosis by outputting chemicals that are easily detectable. Allowing doctors to detect conditions that would normally be very difficult to detect. The biocomputers can also be programmed to take specific action against mutated or unhealthy cells. Allowing doctors to provide a much more targeted response to disease.

What is even cooler, is that the researchers claim that they could convince our own bodies to build them by implanting the genetic blueprints. So a minor injection, could cause your body to build millions of biocomputers that would spread throughout your entire body. Targeting disease wherever it was found.

Read the entire story at PhysOrg: In a first, scientists develop tiny implantable biocomputers

Touch driven computer interfaces

Someone sent me a link to this YouTube video of a touch driven computer interface.



This is seriously the coolest interface ever. I love the 3d aspects of it, and the lack of any interface devices except the display screen. An interface like this is so much more intuitive than using a standard keyboard and mouse.