Displayosphere
TechCrunch on the Microsoft Spherical Multi-Touch Computer Display 2008 Professional Edition:
Not content with a PC on every desktop, Microsoft wants to see every available surface become a computer screen. It has already developed a multi-touch Surface Computer
(which is being used in AT&T stores), and turned that vertical in a multi-touch wall. Now, it’s latest project at Microsoft Research is a Sphere (see video above).
In case you didn’t notice that it was a sphere, there’s a scrolling “Sphere” marquee.
As research, this is a cool idea, and this will work fine in educational environments where students are looking at things that are already ball-shaped. For anyone else, what’s the point?