A Tour of the Microsoft Home
Part 5: Dining Room
An interactive display on the dining room wall, in a default pattern.
Configuring the dining room ambience on a Tablet PC. Next up: Homework mode.
Here, we're working on an astronomy project and the dining room's displays are helping with the visualization.
A smart display.
The interactive wall display, set up for the astronomy project.
Reconfiguring the dining room to help with some origami.
The table detects the smart phone...
... and presents relevant functionality, including the ability to scan in a business card and add that information to your contacts database.
Reconfiguring the dining room for a child's birthday party, complete with interactive virtual planes.
Dining room in child's birthday party mode.
Next: Part 6: Teen's Bedroom
--Paul Thurrott
September 23, 2008
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