What Microsoft is cooking up for your kitchen. Microsoft, which is best known for software like Windows and Office, is also a research pioneer in the development of ideas and technology for homes of the future. Microsoft researchers occasionally put together videos to demonstrate what's coming soon. These are not pie-in-the-sky fantasies but the culmination of technologies well under way in research labs at Microsoft and at universities and corporations all over the world. These scenarios for using near-future technologies, or something very close to them, are very likely. About 4 minutes and 22 seconds into the most recent promotional video, called "Microsoft Future Vision," you can see Microsoft’s vision for kitchen technology. It's all very elegant and beautiful, of course. But more important is the overarching theme and direction of human interaction with home technology: Computers and technology vanish into tables and cabinet doors, and even into the refrigerator. The interface for all this breathtaking home technology is just like the evil queen’s technology — magic glass plus voice command and artificial intelligence. The glass surfaces conjure up information and ideas, video feeds and communication, all appropriate to the context of the user's intent. In all cases, items in the home look ordinary — the table looks like a table; the fridge looks like a fridge. But the table becomes an extension of the tablet a child is using, and the refrigerator door shows a picture of what’s inside, or information like family schedules and recipes.

The future

Integrating function and design into everyday space

Awesome will set me up great can use this on the slide out pantry screen doors or the fridge

Look

technod out

HCI for Kitchens

badass

Glass

this looks really cool!!!!!

good thing and thanks a lot, Steve Jobs

Cannot wait to get an email from the fridge reminding me to "get milk" on the way home

Glass on the fridge

that would be cool

Whaaaat?

Refridgerator idea!

Awesome.

Manic mirrors can act like computer. Here can show what in fridge w/o opening door.

See through fridge door

Microsoft Home Tech

kitchen technology

Todo

Slick!!