Microsoft shows off novel new devices at Tech Fest

3/2/2010 1:50 PM

Microsoft's focus at this year's tech fest event - currently underway in Seattle - seems to be focused heavily on new systems for input devices and speculative prototypes of cloud computing technology.

Ina Fried at CNET reports that one demonstration, "called Project Gustav, shows how generic computer inputs, like a stylus, can start to take on more of the attributes of real world objects. For example, digital pens have long been able to create digital ink on a page, and even imitate pressure sensitive tools like pens or airbrushes. But Gustav goes a step further, using software to make a digital canvas and palette that can mimic the way real world objects interact and blend their properties."

IT professionals in attendance were also shown a prototype cloud computing mouse, which looks like a small circuit board surrounded by a ring of white plastic, according to photographs posted to Seattle Times tech blogger Brier Dudley's site.

Such revolutionary technologies, should they eventually make it to the mainstream, will necessitate extensive retraining for IT professionals looking for developer/programmer jobs.

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