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Microsoft Unveils the Surface Dial (CNET News)

2016-10-26
I now want to introduce you to this thing the surface style the surface style was created as a new form of input we've learned a ton over the last several years of how people are using their pen and how they use their other hand to do operate whether it's touching the screen grabbing a mouse typing but there's so many different flows of interaction that happened this product was meant to help you change that workflow give you that next option to help you create even faster now we have integrated global controls into this which are part of Windows I know that sounds like a lot of words but what it means is it's built right into Windows as I hold it down can you see right here in the middle of the screen if you bring this up you can see that here I have the dial essentially on my screen in front of me this allows me to select different things within windows in this sense I'm going to show you a new product called ink replay you'll notice my ink went away on the screen that was purposeful but watch as I move the dial to the right as the ink comes back on the screen if you can see my hand and you see the ink coming to life behind me now here's what I love about this I can recreate this ink or I can take it away at any given time but if the team gets this document and they want to replay my emotion you can see it because it came out of my hand if I had typed that message you would not have the inner pieces of what came with it those three exclamation points may not look the same the writing may have looked faster or slower which is important let me show you another cool trick if I just come here this product comes to life with the scroll wheel so as I scroll can you see this flipping just moving my hand and flipping through showing you how the device works off the screen and we're going to show you how it works on the screen in just a minute but if you have a surface pro 3 if you have a surface pro 4 if you have a surface book this mode of interaction is for you to so don't worry if you already have one of those you can grab a surface style you can turn up or going turn it down change the brightness scroll through your document like I do here you can do all the magical things that the dial does for you to help you create
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