You know, MSR is an organisation where some really fantastic work is being done. However, when I read about the DDR project and result, I had to check whether or not this was a joke, because the idea is so damn lame and the execution of it pretty damn cludgey.

Here is an example of some really, really cool input tech that is the kind of thing I would have expected from MSR:

http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch/

(you'll need Quicktime to play the demo clip).

This is the kind of thing I could visualise being hooked up to a Windows Vista based appliance, with only the functional app exposed in the UI, inside my house for interacting with various appliances, my PC and the 'Net.

The screen could be some waffer thin OLED technology that would just hang on the wall.