........was a new touch-screen computer. The 30-inch screen sits 21 inches off the ground, as though it is the top of a fancy coffee table. You manipulate objects on the screen with your fingers. Drag virtual photos to sort them, flick an on-screen globe to spin it and so on
This new “surface computer,” as Microsoft calls it, has a multi-touch screen. You can use two fingers or even more — for example, you can drag two corners of a photograph outward to zoom in on it.