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Touchable is a stretch when talking about Vermeer, but we'd definitely call it interactive.

Instead of hiding the 360-degree display under an acrylic or glass dome it uses a parobolic reflector to float a 3D "object" in space and tracks hand motions with an IR sensor or Kinect.

Microsoft Research was founded way back in 1991 as a way of turning cutting edge concepts into products.

Leave it to Microsoft Research to show off some cool stuff that may or may not actually happen on any thing you ever actually buy.

Apple may have made its thoughts on the stylus clearer than ever at its iPhone OS 4 event, but it looks like Microsoft Research is intent on redefining what's possible with a l

It wasn't all that long ago that Microsoft was talking up the Virtual WiFi feature developed by Microsoft Research and set for inclusion in Windows 7, but something got lost along the road to release day, and the functionality n