Get ready for 6 minutes of mind expanding augmented reality from Marco Tempest and a Kinect sensor. 

Metro style - you may have seen in on Windows Phone, Windows 8 and Xbox 360. The Microsoft Dynamics team recently showed how they're thinking about Metro style in business software.

While my Lumia has survived a few drops in its time, another Nokia Lumia 800 reached an altitude of 105,000 feet and survived temperatures of -61C recently.

The Microsoft Home is full of examples of digital technology blending with the physical environment - it's no flight of Jetsons fantasy. 

Audio and video indexing is now available as a cloud service from GreenButton's inCus - a service built on top of Microsoft Research MAVIS and Windows Azure.