Microsoft unveils touch screen computing Video

Video description: Microsoft has just announced its Surface Computing technology, a project that has been kept under wraps for five years. Using a giant table-like display, users are able to draw, interact with media, and use another new technology called domino tagging, in which a real-life object on the computer's surface is identified and becomes an on-screen object that can be interacted with. CNET News.com's Ina Fried got a demo of the Surface Computer.

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