Always drawing a little crowd, the Microsoft Surface set up in the MSDN lounge at Tech.ED is very cool.
After playing with the touch capabilities, you could be treated to an in-chair professional massage while a demonstration of it’s ability to read the event passes and pull down information from CommNet was shown.
Basically, on the back of the passes was a small pattern of white dots. They hold about 2 bytes of data. In this case they had encoded the delegate ID. Placing the pass on the surface would then allow the device to immediately connect to CommNet and pull down the particular delegate’s personal schedule for Tech.Ed.
Luke
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