Microsoft Surface and the Falcon Eye application were used at the recent Super Bowl to manage security at the massive event.  Tampa Incident Commander used Surface to manage, oversee, and assign actions to his ground force (even for contacting them direct from surface via the radio network).

This great implementation of Microsoft Surface  and mapping software was done by the Microsoft partner Infusion. 

Here it is in action:

Cool or what! 

In my mind this is the perfect mapping application as all information is integrated in a single place and it can be analysed in a highly interactive environment.  In fact, in my mind, this makes it the ultimate GIS!

More on this at Microsoft, slashdot and engadget. 

This Saturday I managed to blag my way into the Premier Banking lounge at Barclays Bank in Piccadilly Circus (London).  I’m certainly not premier banking material, but I wanted to see the new surface tables that they put in recently.  The implementation and applications were done by Infusion (who also do lots of other cool surface stuff).

There are 3 tables in the lounge, and each has a spinning sphere you can interact with to find out more about the services available.  The imbedded videos were pretty cool (they are of course resize-able and drag-able).  It kept me entertained!  The odd thing was that on a busy Saturday afternoon, the lounge was empty.  And of course, it is a pity there was not mapping in this Surface implementation…