Microsoft SUR40 Multitouch Surface Computer Now Available For Pre-order Through Samsung

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Microsoft has announced that the SUR40 touchscreen surface has been put up for pre-order in more than twenty countries around the world. The Microsoft SU40 computer is available on Samsung websites of the respective countries as the touchscreen surface has been built-in collaboration with the South Korea-based company.

This multitouch-based surface can be used as a table or as a wall mount and you can interact with it whenever you want. Microsoft has designed regular legs to use it as a tablet, however, you can create your own legs if you want to. Also the wall mount can be customized as the company has always encouraged creativity rather than keeping you tied down to a single design.

The Microsoft SUR40 features a 40-inch display with multitouch support and native 1920 x 1080 full HD resolution, Dual-core 2.9GHz AMD Athlon II X2 CPU, and an AMD HD6750M graphics card which supports DirectX 11. The touchscreen surface comes packed with PixelSense support, a technology that brings touch features to this amazing computer.

Samsung and Microsoft will release the SUR40 computer in 23 countries in early 2012 as there is no way the proceedings will be completed by the end of 2011. There are a few problems that need to be sorted about in order to take these touchscreen surfaces to the next level after the first technology of this kind had become available back in 2008.

The Redmond-based company has never let consumers and dreamers down when it came to innovative products. Microsoft has always invested new technologies, but the biggest problem is that most of them are very expensive. This surface computing is going to leave a scar on your pockets, however, the final price is yet to be known.

There are more than 50 touch points that can be recognized by the surface’s LCD at the same time so you can ask 4 of your friends to join the party and the SUR40 won’t feel a burden. The computer will have implications in offices, classrooms, restaurants, and others.

Microsoft is hopeful that people will understand this visionary technology as it can also be used by a medic to interact with his patients, a professor with his students, a bar manager with his customers, and the list could go on forever.

On the other hand, Samsung believes that the customers are the ones that will take the SUR40 to the next level. They expect to see a lot of great ideas coming out of the technology which should be regarded as surface computing, not like a regular computer.

The PixelSense technology will recognize almost everything you put on the LCD display like fingers, cups, pens, phones, gadgets, brushes, etc. Microsoft and Samsung say that “sky is the limit” with the SUR40 computer so we invite you to watch several videos below to find out more about this amazing surface.