Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog at the Seattle PI newspaper has a video of Hrvoje Benko of Microsoft Research demonstrating Sphere, a spherical touch screen display. It's a research project not a product, but Benko suggests it could be used as an information point in high-traffic areas such as exhibitions. It can also, of course, work as a globe. The story says:
Sphere is a cousin of the Microsoft Surface tabletop computer, already being used in retail and hospitality settings. The underlying hardware for Sphere is sold commercially by Global Imagination of Los Gatos, Calif., but Microsoft researchers made numerous enhancements and developed specialized software.
