Microsoft kicked off its seventh annual TechFest this week in Redmond, where the company’s research teams emerge from the labs to display their latest technologies. Here’s a look at just a few of the technologies demoed at the conference:
Tiny Web Services
Feng Zhao with Microsoft Research demoed a small chip he dubbed Tiny Web Services that monitors a home or data center’s energy efficiency. "This sensor actually can sense the temperature, humidity and other environmental variables," in a home or office, he said in a video . "It takes this information, and it computes some high-level information from that and tells me whether the house is too hot or too cold" and relays that information to "controllers" like a home furnace or PC, he said. The completed device would run on 2AA batteries and use a wireless transceiver to transmit information through a TCP/IP connection, Zhao said. "This is a wireless device, you can spread these out into an environment, they...
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APOPHENIA : Earlier this week, I had the honor of giving a talk at the opening of the Microsoft Research New England Lab. I have uploaded a crib of that talk, entitled "Understanding Socio-Technical Phenomena in a Web2.0 Era"... READ MORE
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A nine-person team at Microsoft Research India assesses whether quirky ideas can make technology useful to those who have heretofore lived without it.
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The remote is slow.
Regardless, this is a cheap
Sonos-esque system.
—Tim Gideon
For the full-length, free-verse Logitech Squeezebox Duet Network Music System review check out PCMag.com . ... more
And they’re off. With the iPhone software developer’s kit coming out tomorrow, top developers are lining up to write native applications for the device. Yesterday, I speculated about apps I’d like to see and found that office software developer DataViz was raring to put out software for the iPhone.
Today I heard from QuickOffice, another maker of Microsoft Office compatible software for handhelds. QuickOffice is strong on the Symbian platform, where DataViz’ streng... more
Yeah, whimsical USB drives are kind of 2006. But when I saw these beasts on Unplggd , I couldn’t resist sharing them. In case you’re zoologically challenged, they are (clockwise from upper left) a turtle, gorilla, sheep, and pig.
Available on their Swedish maker’s site, the Minimoo keys come in 1GB, 2GB, or 4GB sizes.... more
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