Gadgetory

so we're here at Microsoft's envisioning lab with Harold Becker who's a senior product planner this is the place where we share a long-term vision for productivity we bring the top enterprise customers in here and the idea really is to share some ideas get some feedback and make sure that we have good ideas for the next versions of office this is a touch screen wall what is this it's a 28-foot touch enabled wall and we use this in this facility to kind of set the context and this is this is a this is not capacitive touch what kind of touches this it's a laser-based touch system so here lasers that kind of create a wall of light you've got this bad boy over here this thing is kind of a this is all the relevant content for one project that I'm working on it's live real life content I can see who's touching that content I can communicate with those people directly and so it's very simple for me to kind of have a look at all the things that are going on related to this project we all know that we get disrupted many many times every day and there's a high cost associated with those disruptions what I just did is I switched the context now I'm looking at content that's maybe more relevant to my personal life is this is this Windows and in five years and take this as a concept car tried to approach most likely or very likely will look very different from what we're sharing here this is about the kernel of an idea what if you had more transparency into people's projects this one is our latest edition so you see how the camera is starting to recognize me I want to use my move my hands so that the camera really tracks them well and then I can move in and out of the sky what I'm on a trip here I'm not going in it so what is this here this is a very small cellphone one of the key ideas he is what if you could interact with the content on the device by touching the back so you're not covering up the front side of the display just think about all those folks those frontline task workers that are not connected right now what idea is that you know you can develop those devices very low costs and just provide the information to those people when they need them right that wall is live yes it's a live green wall it feels so a lien in the room like this and yet maybe I'm crazy but I feel like the air is cleaner in this room am i it doesn't it just have that benefit I've got to get one of these in my house is this expensive it seems like it'd be very pricey okay Harold I have one more question are these some kind of digital retainer what what exactly am I looking at on this shelf because it's very is very Cronenberg ask are these for the mouth yes but they wouldn't would it and what do they do well so you can move you can interact with system you can basically move your cursor with your tongue really yes well I see how with with people with disabilities this may be that's probably right that's what you're thinking about the application okay so then I shouldn't be creeped out by the concept of Microsoft trying to put computers in my mouth which wouldn't be a problem for me personally but well this is great stuff thank you so much oh my dog really very cool if you don't mind I'm just gonna hang out here a little bit is that a beam I guess that's a very comfortable chair so this that's over here ooh ooh this is comfortable now how do you get if you want to have a drink here and you have somebody who can bring it in or is there an after-hours we have a voice application for this is the drinks please Chris we need some single malt whiskey here and go cigars and cigars ASAP whiskey will do close enough you