Video: Microsoft's Future Home actually makes your computer a big ass table |

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Video: Microsoft's Future Home actually makes your computer a big ass table |
May 14 2009, 12:47 AM
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The problem with most so-called "homes of the future" is that they come off looking like a theme-park vision of the space age (read: the 1970s). The Microsoft Home, however, manages to piece together a realistic vision of our homes on a 5 to 10 year horizon -- a timeline just long enough to allow the nascent technologies of today to go mainstream. As such, it's no surprise to find dwellers interacting with the environment through gestures and voice to control interactive cooking surfaces in the kitchen and the digital wall paper in the kids' room. More prophetic perhaps, the promise that "one day your computer will be a big-ass table" appears to be coming true in the dining room. Take the tour in video form after the break.
Continue reading Video: Microsoft's Future Home actually makes your computer a big ass table Filed under: Displays, Household Video: Microsoft's Future Home actually makes your computer a big ass table originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 14 May 2009 02:19:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | CommentsRead More... |
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