Jerry Yang

Microsoft's Surface tabletop computer got a one-night gig on the Vegas Strip last week at the National Heads-Up Poker Championship drawing party. Poker celebrities, and a few faces famous outside the game, got a glimpse of ways Harrah's might use Microsoft's Surface technology to let guests interact with tables in unique ways.

Photos of the players were taken and uploaded onto the Surface units, where players could then interact with them and embed an autograph. Harrah's plans to pilot a Surface unit this spring inside the Rio.

Here, Jerry Yang, the poker professional (not the Yahoo executive), gives the unit a try.