"If it works well, the keyboard -- which I got to inspect at great length but not actually type on -- is going to be the Surface's killer attraction, " wrote Slate's Farhad Manjoo.

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The attraction's centrepiece is the oval-shaped Great Glass House, believed to be the largest of its type in the world.

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