http://blogs.technet.com/mohinderverma/archive/tags/engadget/default.aspxTags: engadgeten-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.technet.com/mohinderverma/archive/2007/05/07/microsoft-shows-off-digidesk-workstation-of-the-future.aspxTue, 08 May 2007 07:07:00 GMTd5e57398-b9ef-4490-9955-07cbb4e4a80d:903894Mohinder Verma0http://blogs.technet.com/mohinderverma/comments/903894.aspxhttp://blogs.technet.com/mohinderverma/commentrss.aspx?PostID=903894http://blogs.technet.com/mohinderverma/rsscomments.aspx?PostID=903894&nbsp; <P><A class=imglink title="Engadget home" href="http://www.engadget.com/" mce_href="http://www.engadget.com/"><IMG alt=Engadget src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/logo.gif" mce_src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/logo.gif"></A></P> <DIV id=wrapper> <DIV id=wrapper2> <DIV id=content> <DIV id=innercontent> <DIV id=p889209> <H2><A href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070502/microsoft-ciw-digidesk-demo/" mce_href="http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070502/microsoft-ciw-digidesk-demo/"><IMG alt="" hspace=4 src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/05/digidesk.jpg" vspace=4 border=1 mce_src="http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2007/05/digidesk.jpg"></A></H2> <DIV class=post id=889209> <P>Everyone's got their own idea about how we're gonna <A href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/herman-miller-planning-desk-of-the-future/" mce_href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/herman-miller-planning-desk-of-the-future/">get our work done in the future</A>, and except for the camp that envisions us toiling away in the silicon mines for our robotic overlords, most of these concepts seem to have converged around a few of the same elements. Well Microsoft was showing off its Center for Information Work's take on the ideal workstation at Convergence 07, and the so-called DigiDesk does indeed incorporate many features we've seen before, including a multi-touch display (we know, we know), document digitizer, speech recognition engine, and ability to resize objects on the fly a la <A href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/09/nyus-multi-touch-sensing-through-frustrated-total-internal-refl/" mce_href="http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/09/nyus-multi-touch-sensing-through-frustrated-total-internal-refl/">Jeff Han's famous TED presentation</A>. Of course Redmond conveniently neglected to tell us when we can expect to to find the DigiDesk at our local Office Depot, meaning that like most of these neat-o concepts, a YouTube vid (after the break) is probably the closest you're gonna get to this tech for a long time.</P> <P mce_keep="true"><EMBED src=http://www.youtube.com/v/Lt_4bfyxOf0 width=425 height=350 type=application/x-shockwave-flash wmode="transparent"></P> <P mce_keep="true">&nbsp;</P> <DIV align=center>&nbsp;</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> <P mce_keep="true">&nbsp;</P><img src="http://blogs.technet.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=903894" width="1" height="1">engadget