in regards to my previous posting to consolidate all the different comments and markup-commands ( ) I now found an additional topic that is very familiar with that:
Microsft Surface Dial
That input device is build to support touch and pen-input and by the way could be a replacement (or maybe addition) for 3dconnexion devices in a specific way.
As pointed out in the What's new ( page 22) this device just seems to support the following commands: "Volume, Scroll, and Undo (and the custom ring options Pan, Zoom, and Rotate)." I know that development can do better and integrate for example - the color pick-option seen in the youtube video and I'm pretty sure that a lot of creative Beta-testers have some more cool ideas (come'on and help me out !) how to use this device even if the API of that device is not "accessible" as expected to be.
Dominik
my SR: 1-18379064341
REFERENCES (take a look and post your ideas for enhancements here):
here: (Microsoft Surface Dial: Unboxing & Review - YouTube )
or here: (Microsoft Surface Dial )