Hardware & devices
Driving advances in hardware, devices and cyber-physical systems.
Project
EmotoCouch: An exploration in interactive furniture
EmotoCouch is a prototype exploring how furniture could be augmented as part of a smart home. It uses lights, patterns, and haptics to explore possibilities for interactive furniture. Specifically, EmotoCouch was designed to explore how…
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Exploring Interactive Furniture with EmotoCouch
People respond emotionally to other people, animals, or even objects like furniture. While current furniture is static in appearance, embedded electronics can enable furniture to change its appearance. A couch could show excitement during a…
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Large-Scale Reconfigurable Computing in a Microsoft Datacenter
Source: Hot Chips 26 (2014) Session 5 At 33:24 Andrew Putnam, Adrian Caulfield, and Eric Chung begin their presentation on A Reconfigurable Fabric for Accelerating Datacenter Services. See also: PowerPoint presentation.
Microsoft Research Blog
Beyond Tapping and Sliding
“The way we design computers today,” Microsoft researcher Hong Tan says, “it would seem that people only use their eyes.” Sure, we tap on our device screens, slide our fingertips across the glass, and type…
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Ziria: Wireless Programming for Hardware Dummies – Part 4
Software defined radios are a powerful tool for experimenting with wireless PHY and MAC layers. At the same time, they are a challenging programming environment, given tight timing constraints imposed. A student who wants to…
