By Tim Ferguson, 6 December 2007 13:01
You can also interact with the Smart Board by using the touchscreen to write the names of items you want to check are in the house or need to be added to your shopping list.
Photo credit: Tim Ferguson
Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day
From digital shopping lists, to the car that can teach itself to drive
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1. Roger Huffadine
Humm.. bit more like 'Modern History Tech'
There really isn't anything in these pictures that hasn't been around for at least 5 years [longer in Labs].
2. Graham Coles
Time for the human race to call it a day, I think.
Everyone seems to be so hell bent on replacing human intelligence with machines that there's really no point in continuing.
In previous centuries, people had things called memories, they could learn how to spell, add up in their head, learn skills with tools, learn skills like driving, communication, writing etc.
Now it seems that peoples brains have deteriorated to the point where nobody can spell without the aid of a checker in everything, can't remember what food they need, can add up, can't even write down a shopping list.
If technology keeps intruding, you won't need to remember routes, won't need to learn skills like driving or co-ordination, you will just sit in a car push a button and be taken to your destination.
Technology was supposed to supplement human intelligence, not replace it. I suspect at this rate humans of the future will be too stupid to do anything for themselves. So much for 'innovation'
3. anonymous
I thought Top Gear had already demonstrated a car that drove around their track, with no mention of Microsoft
4. Marc Wilson
"You appear to have moved the steering wheel- (C)ontinue, (A)bort, (R)etry?"
No, I don't think so.
5. anonymous
The car top gear tested could rember a previous drives action. The technology m$ was showing off was software that learned how to drive not just rembering how someone else drove.