Here are two nice practical applications of Microsoft Surface in retail stores of wireless carriers in North America (Wind Mobile and AT&T) where touchscreen and tangible input paradigms are used in combination. The phones are tagged with barcode stickers on the surface-facing side to enable the table to recognize the different models. Personally, I like Wind Mobile’s implementation in the first video a bit better because of their clean, no frills design but see for yourself:
Advancing Usability
On user interface design and the interactions between IT and society.
Advancing Usability 