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One of the remaining struggles with making virtual reality experiences feel more ‘real’ is the lack of tangible…

The most nerve-wracking part of taking the road test for your driver’s license isn’t remembering to check your blind…

Your next tattoo could also be used to control your computer. A new technology called DuoSkin, developed by MIT…

The ultimate smart device does exactly what you want before you to tell it to. It sounds like an impossible…

The idea that drones could provide medical care has been around practically as long as drones have existed.…

Smartwatches are still trying to answer a lot of questions, chief among them being, "What do people actually what to…

It may have started out as a way to let players physically interact with their games, but the Xbox 360's Kinect…

Intelligent processing and more sensitive capacitive displays have allowed our fingers to replace the stylus that…

When Microsoft encourages its engineers to think outside the box, the results aren't always dead-ends like the Kin.…

It's a tough pill to swallow, but smartphones aren't getting any smaller. And since those larger displays are…

Streaming video games could be so clutch, if it wasn't for maddening lag time. Microsoft researchers have a solution…

Your laptop's trackpad gestures are great, but they make your desktop computer's keyboard-and-mouse combo feel…

Your browser is in all your devices. Hell, you can even get it in your watch if you're down with that. And in the…

Multi-gigapixel panoramas are rad. It's like peeping at the world through a telescope from the comfort of your own…

Got a super-secure password? Maybe you shouldn't be so sure. Telepathwords can help you find out, and practically…

Microsoft Research has come up with a clever way to let users actually feel what they're interacting with on a…

We've been waiting for Star Trek-style Holodeck technology since, what, 1987? Microsoft Research has finally taken…

For all the power and connectivity that modern mobile devices offer these days, why are we still typing on screens…

Few e-readers are as intimate as this prototype from Nicholas Chen. Look how they communicate in that video! The…

Microsoft Surface is a technology that I know exists but wish it was a larger part of my life. And it's getting…