Surface Touch Cover: Pressure sensitivity, lightning-fast sampling and multi-touch make the cover work like a keyboard — even without any moving parts.

Surface: The original “Pixel Sense” multi-touch project started on the Edison Labs team. It’s not a stretch to say that this group invented the Surface.

MS Touch Mouse: They built the high-resolution scroll wheel, tilt wheel, optical tracking and the pointer ballistics algorithm for moving the mouse cursor.

ASG has three robotic arms (with six degrees of freedom), none of which you want to arm wrestle (they’re known as ‘the widow makers’).

Access to their computer vision lab is controlled by iris recognition technology built by the team.

They have an industrial embroidery sewing machine for the next generation of smart fabrics that they’re planning to introduce.

Team members were born in nine different countries and speak six languages.

There is a published fiction writer, a special forces soldier and a pro ping pong player on the team.

A fifth of the team ride their bikes to work every single day, rain or shine.