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Microsoft Uses DDR Dance Pad To Stamp Spam

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ridiculous-ways-to-lose-weight dept.

writertype writes "Apparently Microsoft researchers are also DDR enthusiasts, for their StepUI research project uses a dance pad to stamp out spam from email, scroll through photographs or perform other functions. 'People really like stomping with two feet to delete spam,' said Kevin Schofield, general manager of strategy and communications at Microsoft Research." Given my inbox, I'd be ready for the '08 Olympics. If only they would make Spam Stamping a sport.

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  1. Great Icon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The gates-as-borg icon with the enormous Monty Python foot coming out of his torso is strangely appropriate for this story...