In Pictures: Microsoft's Multi-Touch 'Surface' Table

A Microsoft rep demonstrates Surface's photo-viewing application. Around the edges of the screen, shots are grouped into several neat piles, while others are arranged more haphazardly.

Zooming in on a particular photo is as easy as grabbing its corners and stretching the image.

Zoom in far enough on a photo, and it will take up all of Surface's 1024-by-768-pixel display.

Want a better way to order room service? A virtual concierge app gives you a new way to browse through menu items at a hotel.

Here's another shot of a virtual concierge app, where two users can simultaneously browse menu items on opposite sides of the screen.

Surface should offer some intriguing new ways to organize and play music.

Touch-based zoom and drag gestures make interactive maps a natural function for Microsoft Surface machines.

Tiny tags on products will allow partners such as T-Mobile to use Surface kiosks to give customers more information about products in the store.

Suddenly PC World's art department staffers feel much more secure in their jobs...