DigiDesk, multi monitor heaven in Microsoft vision

If you’re a maniac at least a little you must have dreamed sometimes about a cool workstation, with big LCD screen, two of them at least and a cool operating system that allows natural interaction, without interfering with your other tasks like drinking coffee or eating pizza, and keeps working while you don’t.

Microsoft apparently shares the same vision and introduced the Center for Information Work (CIW), the giant’s vision for productivity software.

Microsoft’s Tom Gruver demonstrates DigiDesk, one of the new form factors in the CIW

DigiDesk is essentially a multi monitor workstation, with touchscreen capabilities, that allow user interaction both ways (you tell your PC what to do with your fingers and it show you the result on the same screen). You can flick documents, move them around, scan papers by putting them on the desk. The demo below is pretty impressive and gives a good notion of what DigiDesk might do for you in the future.

I think this is one of the coolest things Microsoft ever came up with, and has that WoW that Vista misses so much. Unfortunately we can’t predict if and when DigiDesk will be available and how much of your internal organs you should sell to afford one.

Source: Crave (via Slashgear)