14 DAY TRIAL // It appears that display surfaces really are seeing quite a bit of attention, with Samsung having taken the time to promote the SUR40, a 40-inch model that should enable collaborative work, among other things.
One could say that, despite the size and performance variety, the display industry isn't all that intricate, not overly much anyway.
Still, even though the nature of displays practically dictates their shape as rectangular pieces of glass with metal circuitry behind, this doesn't mean that less than ordinary projects don't exist.
Display surfaces could be seen as something of the sort, since the scenarios where they can be useful are limited and quite specialized.
Nevertheless, much work can be done on them and even collaborative projects can be more easily handled, among other things.
One example of a surface all-in-one system, so to speak, is the one that Microsoft demonstrated in Singapore, and which was developed by Samsung.
Aptly named SUR40, it has a display size of 40 inches and should become available for purchase by the time the month of September comes around, at the price of $8,600.
Of course, more than just the screen, it is a full-featured system, complete with CPU, memory, storage and everything else.
Nevertheless, the Full HD screen is the main selling point, with its support for massive multi-touch, object recognition and ever the ability to let more than one user perform operations on it at the same time, a direct consequence of the high number of touch points it can track.
Automobile, healthcare, financial and retail industries are the sort of environments where table PCs of this sort could be most useful.
Either way, users interested in seeing how the Samsung SUR40 works can get a short glimpse of it in the video embedded below. More info and, perhaps, footage could emerge over the next months.