Microsoft Surface: The Name
Posted in Good Names, Metaphor, Metonymy, Names, Product Names, Real Word Names, Schematic Names, Sound Symbolism on June 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
Microsoft recently unveiled Surface, a tabletop computer with an amazing multi-touch interface. There’s no keyboard or mouse-you interact with Surface through its display, which is touch-sensitive and can respond to simultaneous touches from multiple fingers or people. That means you can “grab” objects and move them around, re-size photos by stretching them out with your [...]

