Topic: Microsoft Research

The Technological Marvels Microsoft Hides in Its Labs

Wikicommons / Ergonomidesign

Google X made headlines this week, but Microsoft has been secretly building everything from social networks to projectors that turn a human body into a touch screen in their labs for years.

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