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Saturday, January 10, 2009

 

Microsoft Surface

Last night my family was invited out to an early preview event at the Darien Library because we donated to the capital campaign for their new building. There were certainly a lot of really cool new technologies there such as a geothermal heating and cooling system and a fully automated radio frequency identification book return system. I however want to tell you about just one thing; I thought by far the coolest thing in the new library was actually in the children's section; the Darien Library has become the first library in the world to feature a Microsoft Surface! Though it's current application is limited to the standard water over rocks screen saver, the library hopes to add many more educational and fun applications for the kids such as a drawing and painting application and Google Earth, a program that allows it's users to explore the world! I snapped a few photos with my cellular telephone and attached them to this posting for your viewing plesure.

On a side note, stay tuned to my professonal website, www.AndrewKostin.com. It should be seeing a bit of a face lift over the next few weeks including High-Defanition Video.

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