Microsoft Surface learns a new trick with the Lumino Project.  Surface has always been able to recognize physical objects when they are placed down.  With the newly constructed (and still being tested) Lumino blocks, Surface can recognize when a number of blocks are stacked on top of each other, and these various three dimensional orientations can correspond with different outcomes.  Watch the video above to see examples.  Though these examples may seem juvenile at the moment (re: checkers), the researchers can see this kind of technology being implemented in the future by architects and engineers.

[Via Gizmodo]