If you ever accidentally pour a mug of tea on your keyboard and surrounding desk, hope that it is a Microsoft Basic keyboard. Because I did that yesterday and was very impressed with the keyboard design.

By now you might have heard of Microsoft's new computer design, called Surface (video).

Using the latest multi-touch screen technology, they've developed a "table-top" computer with an interesting user interface, almost like a horizontal version of the Minority Report UI. The screen is also monitored from below by infra-red cameras which allows the computer to react to barcoded objects being placed on the screen.