Gadgetory

Microsoft's surface is going big and boy do I mean big I'm Bridget Carey this is your scene that update your office can now purchase Microsoft's whiteboard of the future only for a mere seven thousand dollars this is the surface hub and Microsoft gave the world a glimpse of this massive conference room computer back in January it's designed to replace all the gadgetry typically found in a meeting room and now we know the price the 55 inch model is 7 grand but if you want to go all out there's an 84 inch model with better hardware and that's $20,000 it'll start shipping in July now if 20 grand sounds steep keep in mind that projectors and high end video conferencing equipment can add up to be more than $30,000 the wall-mounted computer can be operated with your hands a stylus or your voice it can hold conference calls or be used for note-taking during brainstorming sessions this is just another way for Microsoft to temp businesses to use Windows 10 but if you want your office to get really futuristic try on Samsung's first transparent OLED display it also can be made into a mirror so you can replace the mirror in the work bathroom with this no actually it makes more sense for a retail store to use this as a clothing fitting room mirror letting you interact with transparent windows to call for assistance or see if an items in stock some retailers like Neiman Marcus and Rebecca Minkoff are testing this type of technology out in their fitting rooms I got to see firsthand earlier this year at the National Retail Federation show in New York Tech is also transforming the kitchen this is the June intelligent oven it's the size of a toaster oven but costs more than a high-end full-size range it's $1,500 it's packed with the same nvidia tegra processor you find in a tablet along with a camera and Wi-Fi all this for the ability to detect what type of food you just put in it so it can offer suggestions on how to cook it the camera records videos so you can take a peek at your dish through the video stream on your phone app or you can save a time-lapse video as it cooks to share on social media but you can't own it yet the first test units won't be fully baked until the fall and before we close a few quick updates from the social world you can now play a game inside a facebook Messenger chats it's an add-on app extension called doodle draw similar to pictionary you get a word to draw and friends have to guess what it is to access it first go into a chat conversation and click the more button that's the little ellipsis on the bottom then find doodle draw to install and the video app vine now makes it easier to search through the network six-second clips the explore tab lets you search people tags or any word or phrase that's it for this tech news roundup and there's always more at sina.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey