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A closer look at Microsoft's crazy Surface Dial puck
A closer look at Microsoft's crazy Surface Dial puck
Microsoft unveiled its Surface Studio PC last month, alongside a crazy-looking Surface Dial puck. The new accessory is, perhaps, the most surprising and unique part of the Surface Studio. It's a...
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I'm really looking forward to this coming out. I think it will be awesome for the Adobe software suite.




This seems like a great idea, my only concern is how universal it could be. I could totally see myself using this for a lot of different things, but what does it offer over a mouse? It seems like you'd almost need to design the interface of a program around it in order for it to work well, which sounds like extra overhead that most companies won't value. But maybe it's awesome and I just have to try it first.
It will definitely be something that devs will need to add extra functionality to use it in a unique fashion. However, it should be fairly simply to add that functionality. I don't see these being as universal as say a keyboard and mouse, but I look at is as something like a flight stick that's useful in certain situations. I see this being great for design and engineering.