Microsoft Corp. showed off its new Sphere computer last week.

The machine, which was featured at the vendor's Research Faculty Summit in Redmond, Wash., is still a research prototype. It uses a touch-screen orb instead of a traditional flat-screen monitor.
The system combines touch capabilities with a projector and an infrared camera, noted Hrvoje Benko, a Microsoft Research human-computer interaction specialist, in a blog post.

Microsoft engineers have so far developed a picture and video browser, as well as three applications for the system...........


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