Today Microsoft announced "Surface Computing" which is being developed by the Productivity and Extended Consumer Experiences Group (the same group that Embedded technologies lives in) - what is Surface Computing? to quote Tom Gibbons, VP of the division "Surface computing is a completely intuitive and liberating way to interact with digital content. It blurs the lines between the physical and virtual worlds." (read the entire interview here) - you can think of this as Table top computing mixed with multi-touch technologies - there's a cool video over on10
I'd curios about the application programming model, what's the input method, how are applications added to the underlying operating system - perhaps I need to go and pay the team a visit to get more of the developer story around Surface Computing...