Imagine every surface in your classroom -- every desktop -- is an intuitively interactive digital interface. Heck, imagine just ONE such desktop somewhere in your school. A minor opportunity for transformation? Bueller? Bueller?
The following "Surface" video comes from Popular Mechanics:
Want to see a longer video? Go download the video image to the right from "10". Lots of options: 
iPod, 
PSP, 
WMV, WMV (High), 
Zune
If you haven't yet gone a bit ga-ga over the recent news of Microsoft's "Surface" release, or sat drop-jawed at the potential of "photosynthing" (which I blogged about yesterday), I'd highly recommend that you spend a few minutes with "Mr. W's Great Blogging Thing" to play connect-the-dots with the future of learning. A teaser:
We’ve all heard the cry that “It’s about the teach, not the tech” but I think Surface has the potential to bridge that particular gap… it’s a stunning bit of ‘tech’ that will actually enhance the ‘teach’. I can’t wait to try one out… and that leaves me with a question for you:
How would you use Surface? What new ways of working would it make possible? Does it give you ideas for lessons?
While I'd love to hear from you hear, head over to talk to Mr. W directly. Comments/answers would be great! He does a really nice job exploring the implications of "Surface" for our classrooms in the not-so-distant future. At $5-10K each, we're getting intriguingly close to a reasoned decision for school districts. Especially if we see the 'intuitive' technology interface shift unfolding before our awe-struck eyes.
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