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more about #microsoftresearch more comments → Navin R Johnson: I suddenly have an urge for a Capri Sun. more » Segador: Thank God! Now maybe my basement indie game, Crater Maker 3000 will see the light of day! more » Gordonium: It looks like it was inspired by Franzia. I've got a hangover just looking at it. more » met2art: Puts me in mind of William Gibson's Idoru. Chia's Sandbenders computer... more » OMG! Ponies!: I don't think the designer has taken into account how hardcore computer users interact with their environment and equipment. Take this concept, enlar... more » Monkey Bars: Obama didn't get the Nobel Prize for chemistry. Two Americans and an Israeli are sharing it for their research into ribosomes. more » nutbastard: oh whooops i thought that was the map for black rock city 2010. more » Kaiser-Machead: The designer could've at least oriented the letters accordingly so that it was akin to a clock, that way, rotating the entire chart would not be neces... more » jamjen: Having taken way too many Chemistry courses, I'd say this is pretty useless, at leased in my view. Maybe if the groups were better labeled... But the ... more » Sockatume: The regular periodic table gives you an idea of the size of the atoms too. Going from one row - or PERIOD - to another, the size of the atoms increase... more » phunnyballs: Really? Umm, we used this bad boy in my chemistry class: more » hoffmanbike: wow... i made something roughly like in highschool ....... my chem teacher told me it was stupid more » GreshamKnukka: The thing with Quantum computing that scares me is that if Microsoft forgets about this: http://www.crimcheck.com/background-check-news/the-10-laws-o... more » Spencer James: Not certain if this has been covered before, so sorry for the double. How does one land a job as a Futurist? What education and training is involved? ... more » Lite: hates Illinois Nazis: Palpatine is the mind in charge of Microsoft's inventions? more » -
#interfaces
Microsoft's Bag-Based Computer Interface, For Poking
Bag-based? Sack-based? Balloon-based? Balloon-boy-based? There's no shortage of ways to describe Microsoft Research's new tactile interface concept, which lets people interact with prods, pokes, massages and squeezes instead of clicks or taps. More » -
#science
The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
Researcher Mohd Abubakr says that his circular periodic table is better than Mendeleev's. I'd have given him the Nobel in chemistry—if Obama hadn't got it first for mixing himself a whiskey with Red Bull onboard Air Force One. More » -
#interview
Inside the Mind of Microsoft's Chief Futurist
If I encountered Craig Mundie on the street, met his kind but humorless gaze and heard that slight southern drawl, I'd guess he was a golf pro—certainly not Microsoft's Chief of the future. More » -
#videotapestry
Realtime Mobile Video Stitching Is So Crazy It Just Might Work
The proposition: You and a bunch of strangers are live streaming mobile-phone video of some event or disaster. A server stitches it all together and instantaneously publishes a rich, immediate patchwork of the action. More » -
#retromodo
Berlekamp's Switch Game May Be Nerdiest Boardgame Ever
The game has 100 bulbs, 10x10. Each row and each column has a switch that turns off bulbs that are on, and turns on bulbs that are off. Can you turn off all the bulbs? More » -
#skywriting
"Write in the Air" Could Be Xbox's Next Trick
Microsoft showed off a "Write in the Air" system developed in China. You can write with a gyro controller or in thin air, using a camera. Is it next for the Xbox? More » -
#playinggod
Microsoft's Interactive Omnidirectional Projector Puts You in the God Seat
An omnidirectional projector with a camera inside watches your hand movements and reacts fast, like a planetarium-wide Surface table. Does it give you a Zaphod-sized ego? Hell yes it does. Check out this vid: More » -
