Microsoft Surface Dial

Reimagine physical tools in the digital world with a device-to-screen relationship that lets you store, customize, access, and navigate your ideas. Use your applications with more ease and more speed through a simple "press and hold" maneuver to display your tools in a radial menu. With Surface Dial, you can access all of your tools at the point of creation through this innovative way to interact with touchscreen technology.

Surface Dial is a completely new way to interact with technology and create in the most natural, immersive way. Store, customize, access, navigate and reimagine physical tools in the digital world -- from concept to creation.

Press and hold Surface Dial to display a radial menu of tools, making it easier and faster to do the things you love your way, while supporting your workflow. Make everyday tasks simple and fun. Adjust the volume on your favorite Groove track. Scroll through news articles without touching your keyboard or mouse. Fly through your local city in Windows Maps. Haptic feedback provides helpful vibrations through the aluminum body into your fingertips, to help you stay in the moment and feel totally in touch with your work. Surface Dial gives you quick and intuitive access to the brush settings you use most. Make fast and fluid color adjustments, and rotate or scale your canvas to achieve a finer level of control.