Writing boards, stickers: Bridging new technology with users

Paper reminders, whiteboards, video-game consoles. Many of the tools that are familiar with the office have appeared in Microsoft's "Software" presentation ceremony, and it is a purely intentional installation.

Rico Malvar, director of research at Microsoft, said combining the latest technologies with familiar tools would make it "easier for ordinary users to accept them ".

Experts Microsoft has unveiled a number of sample devices, designed to manage a busy family's timetable in a snap. For example, Text2Paper will print the text of the SMS message on a reminder paper, then the reminder is posted on the calendar.

Boku game guides children to basic programming lessons.Source: AP

The devices on display at the Microsoft Techfest event cannot of course reach the public, but they may never be "born". In fact, this event is like a meeting point for all its employees to show off their inventions, in the hope that it will be included in later versions of Microsoft Office and Windows Mobile.

Microsoft also showed a video game machine, designed to teach children the most basic lessons about programming. The central character of the game is an egg-shaped robot named Boku. I will stand in one place, not moving at all, as long as the user has not given instructions.

Because of the code typing on the blank screen, children can program Boku's movements by selecting the images available in the menu. For example, to order Boku to roll to a red apple in the middle of the screen, the child will select pictures titled "see", "red", "Apple", "move", "toward" according to correct order.

" When they play games, kids often come from the mood of" Oh, so fun "to" I want to do my own game ", said Matt MacLaurin, programming director of Microsoft Research Group.

Microsoft scientists also unveiled a telecom software, allowing users to zoom computers around the planet and explore other galaxies (like Google Earth astronomy version).

Once it is over, Wi-Fi ads land on a mobile device screen, even if they are not connected to the network. The loudspeaker can send sounds to those standing right in front of them, but completely "silent" to those standing on either side.

The only app on display at the Techfest that users can touch is Lincoln, a Windows Mobile 5 feature. You want to buy a movie but don't know if it is good or not? You can capture the cover image of the DVD, the system will compare it to the database, then send it back to the user for reviews (comments) on Amazon.com about the movie for your reference.

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