Microsoft imagines an incredible transparent smart cover for Surface tablets

When Microsoft isn't busy transforming living rooms into giant Xbox games, it's working on incredible new technologies. The latest Microsoft Research work sees the company investigate the idea of a transparent smart cover for a Surface tablet. FlexSense is a transparent piece of plastic that can sit on top of a tablet and provide some truly unique methods of input, without the need for external sensors like cameras. Microsoft's demonstration shows how you could physically peel or flip layers of a user interface or naturally reveal specific parts of an image that has a filter applied, all by using piezoelectric sensors within the thin layer of film.

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