Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
Video
Exploring the Design Space for Energy-Harvesting Situated Displays
We explore the design space of energy-neutral situated displays, which give physical presence to digital information. We investigate three central dimensions: energy sources, display technologies, and wireless communications. Based on the power implications from our…
Event
ISWC 2016 and Microsoft Research
It was our pleasure to be part of the premier event for wearable computing and technology, and issues related to on-body and worn mobile technologies that comprise the International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) in…
Event
UBICOMP 2016 and Microsoft Research
It was our pleasure to be part of the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP) in Heidelberg, Germany, on September 12-16, 2016. Microsoft was a Silver sponsor and proud to have…
Project
gNOSIS: Advancing Hardware Development
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are used in wide range of applications from small devices to big data centers. Verilog HDL is one of the most common languages used by FPGA designers to implement a…
Microsoft Research Blog
Nanotechnology comes to life with needle-based human interface devices
By Noboru Kuno, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research Researchers at Microsoft and Tokyo’s Keio University have developed systems that could allow people to use tiny, painless needles to do things like monitor medical conditions or…