Intelligent Whiteboard

Bill Gates demonstrates Touch Wall (CEO Summit 2008, Redmond, Wash. May 14, 2008). The reason why it’s impressive is not because of that fancy hardware - touch-screen with some sensors like earlier Microsoft’s Surface technology (which is primarily a hardware gimmick). This demo is much more than hardware!

Look closely at the application he is interacting with! It’s a unified model of the data presentation softwares from Microsoft Office (powerpoint, word, visio, interactive multimedia - all office tools put together working seamlessly in a non-linear way). My guess is, this is running on a giant presentation platform (must be more powerful than silverlight or maybe silverlight’s next gen) - should have been built from scratch, made to be capable of aggregating all kinds of documents working with eachother (visio, ppt, doc, multimedia).