Microsoft Surface at TEDx Redmond

This past weekend, I had the privilege of demoing Microsoft Surface to 600+ primary school kids at TEDx Redmond. I use the term demo a bit loosely, because for anyone who has worked with Surface and kids, you’ll know that they just kind of take over themselves.

The photograph on the right is what you could see of Surface much of the time during the event. In this instance, the kids were playing with Paint from nsquared’s Education Pack.

In all we had three Microsoft Surface units in the lobby area outside the conference hall. One unit, as mentioned above, had nsquared’s education pack with a broad array of educational applications you will find via the link above. The second unit had two applications developed by InfoStrat for the Smithsonian Institution. That included one shown below where Surface would respond to a real flashlight to digitally illuminate deep sea fish. (Learn more on Nese’s blog.) The third unit had our Concierge with Bing Maps, Stimulant’s Touch Tones and a beta 4-person paint program by one of our Surface team members, Joe.

Learn more about TEDx Redmond over at redu. (redu, Rethink/Reform/Rebuild Education)

- Eric (follow Surface on Twitter and Facebook)