Hardware & devices
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Microsoft Research Blog
How to Build a Smart World
By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research Isaac Asimov, the famous science fiction writer, had a vision of a world called Gaia. Gaia was a world that was aware of its inhabitants — it could heal…
Publication
How and why people use camera phones
Publication
Mixing with Mozart
Microsoft Research Blog
Squeeze the Screen
By Suzanne Ross, Writer, Microsoft Research If you’ve never seen some of the ingenious ways that researchers have invented to make viewing data on a small screen easy, you might say, “I’ll never do all…
Video
TouchLight: An Imaging Touch Screen and Display for Gesture-Based Interaction
A novel touch screen technology is presented. TouchLight uses simple image processing techniques to combine the output of two video cameras placed behind a semi-transparent plane in front of the user. The resulting image shows…
Project
Self Organizing Wireless Mesh Networks
Community-based multi-hop wireless networks is disruptive to the current broadband Internet access paradigm, which relies on cable and DSL being deployed in individual homes. It is important because it allows free flow of information without…