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We all need our personal space, and now MS Research is working on a way to give us our personal AUDIO space. I chatted with Jasha Droppo at TechFest '07 and he gave me the lowdown on how this speaker of the future works including the creation of constructive and destructive interference and high-end...

Ladies and gentlemen, I introduce to you the WORLD'S FIRST massively multi-player online sports game. Thats right- real time action, real hitting, real slides and real catches...all being controlled by different people scattered across the globe. I had a chance to hit a few questions back and forth...

If your friends are anything like mine- you guys love to settle in front of the TV and watch Jack Bauer kick ass on 24. Well- the season premiere episode this year created a ton of buzz amongst digital artists and graphic animators. Jarrod Davis of Zoic Studios created the most realistic, brilliant...

Hothead Games and Penny Arcade teamed up to create the first ever videogame based on the much loved comic strip. The first game is entitled Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness. The game will be released in episodic format, delivering new installments of the adventure...

This booth at TechFest was sooooo much fun. It made me want to run home and get on video messenger with my friends. They've taken some advanced digital effect concepts and simplified them so that we can use them in our every day internet life. You can add special effects to your videos, do it live, and...

We've all gone to some website where is wants you to write in some scrambled letters into a text box. Well, that technology is boring and sometimes flawed so along came Microsoft Research to bring you asirra.com. They have joined with Petfinder to bring us the next (adorable) wave in internet...

A few months ago Dr. Bill Crounse and I reported to you about PlayAnywhere. Well Microsoft research does not rest on its laurels, let me assure you. They've been hard at work incorporating multiple PlayAnywhere machines together for an experience they call PlayTogether. And beyond that thay have...

I couldn't resist stopping at the HD view booth at TechFest '07 because of the sheer magnitude of the camera on display. But, to my surprise and excitement - that huge camera is NOT necessary to pull off the amazing technology HD View is giving us. I chatted up Michael Cohen and he gave a quick demo...

Boku is currently in pre beta stage but it's still incredibly impressive. It's a video game designed to teach children how to program. It runs off an xbox 360 controller and has adorable animations to keep the kids interested- but it teaches REAL programming from coding to debugging. The goal is...

DJ Scobot hosts: Half social, half showcase the VJ Night is both a regular meeting point for VJs, DJs, and everyone who is fascinated by this highly artistic medium as well as a showcase of some of the best work of local talents. Every month they invite local artists to share their work and talk...