Microsoft Research Showcase Explored

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday March 6, 2005 @06:55AM from the teddy-ruxpin-gets-his-day dept.

prostoalex writes "Every year Microsoft Research scientists show their achievements and developments at Redmond campus. Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports from Techfest, a number of other news resources and blogs are covering it. Read about network-enabled bear that allows parents to communicate with the kids, a mobile phone applications that not only checks, but predicts traffic conditions, and surface computing for digital homes." From the article: "The project isn't fully developed, but the ultimate vision is to have the stuffed animal interact with a child, doing such things as playing games and reading stories. Because the bear is on a network, a parent could also use it to interact with a child remotely -- communicating or even taking snapshots through an embedded camera."

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Re:Coolest stuff not mentioned... by tristian_was_here · 2005-03-06 07:05 · Score: 1, Flamebait

I wonder if such things would be used by pedofiles?
hackable fuzzy teddy bears by Muhammar · 2005-03-06 07:15 · Score: 0, Flamebait

these will be pretty popular with perverts

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I doubt that we will ever figure out - and I suspect that even if we did figure out we couldn't do much about it
In other news... by adolfojp · 2005-03-06 07:35 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Microsoft unveils their new line of spyware for kids!!!

Cheers,
Adolfo