We found a Microsoft Surface to have a bit of play with while we were drinking our lunchtime beer. There was a big whoo har a few months ago on how amazing these new touch screen tables were. Well we think the video demonstration getting around must have been a powerpoint show because they were no where near as flash as they seemed. They work a bit similar to the IPhone with some clever hand movements which stretch and rotate items but they couldn’t do too much. You could send clumsy messages to another table, play bowls, look at youtube and play around with a very basic copy of google earth but not much else. They don’t have a blue screen of death- well they do they have just renamed it and made it look nicer “we have experienced a problem and are resetting” Did it twice with out any trouble. Really think they will be a few years before they are seen on a commercial market.