I figured it was only a matter of time before his happened - a Kinect sensor hooked up to a 3D printer which pops out a 3D physical model of a person. Even at low res this looks impressive. Charlie Sorrel from Wired called it a 3-D photo booth. I called it something I want. Now.

Ford's SYNC in car infotainment system is coming to Europe - they already have over 3m users in the US and now voice based control of your in car connections and entertainment is coming across the Atlantic. Announced today at CeBIT

A change of tack with the Windows Phone 7 adverts as the features and apps take center stage in this AT&T/Samsung ad. 

For those of you who missed the Firenze|BXT competition live, here is a recap of what happened in Redmond. Firenze|BXT 2011 had over 250 students participating with the top 20 student finalists coming to Redmond on Superbowl weekend for a major showdown

Hot on the heels of the much discussed Farsight Beyond the Search Box event, our Bing team has hooked up with O’Reilly to create a series titled “The Future of Search”

Steven Bathiche's Applied Sciences team always impress me when I get an invite to their labs - they're focused on building smart displays that will change the way we communicate and in this video, you get to see some of the magic behind the curtain as Stevie walks you through their projects. 

Zhengyou Zhang of Microsoft Research takes us through a demo of a 3D talking head – created by taking a 2D photorealistic video and pasting this on to a 3D mesh model of a head that is built from a Kinect sensor or webcam.