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Microsoft researcher reveals futuristic tech
Created: 04/30/2007
Video description: At the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo last week in San Francisco, Microsoft principal researcher Eric Horvitz demonstrated technologies--such \r\nas using hand gestures to manipulate data and a way to turn any surface into a computer display--that could one day be used in offices.

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