MySong: Sing to Your Computer to Write Music

It is always interesting to check what is up at Microsoft Research. Here is one Microsoft Research project called MySong. It allows you to sing into a microphone and the software will automatically generates chords to accompany a vocal melody. The purpose is to help "folks who like to sing but would never get a chance to experiment with creating real original music".



How useful is MySong? I’ll leave you to judge for yourself. By the look at the comments to this YouTube video clip, I think.......

It is still under development, for more information, please click here.

The future of personal health concept

Here is a video clip ripped from the MIX'08 webcast (hence the video quality is not very good) showing the Microsoft's vision of personal health system. The whole idea is to attach systems and internet connectivity to any devices and any surfaces, including table surface.



It is obvious this kind of 'seen only in movie' technology won't be realized in anytime soon.

Also, I like the digital wallet concept as I hate to bring keep too many cards in my wallet.

Nokia Concept Phone: Morph

Morph is Nokia's current research on nano-technologies.

Several characteristics of this concept phone:-

• The surface is dirt repellent - good for careless users
• Able to recharge from solar energy - if it runs out off power middle of the day, just expose it to sunlight
• Detachable and stretchable - expand it to reveal mini-keyboard, fold it back into normal phone, wear it as a watch.....
• Buttons on the keypad are transparent in colour - you can see through it
  
• Sensing - I can't see the usefulness of this feature, does the phone change colour according to surrounding or what?
• Context dependent 3D keypad buttons - the physical buttons are embossed on the surface - not 3D graphics showing on the screen. The most interesting is the buttons change according to context - e.g. button is flatten to disable users from selecting it.
  

It is hard to predict how long this concept will come true. One thing we can predict is, the price will be very expensive when it hits the market.