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“Disney Checkout Challenge” tests your ability to find the barcode on each grocery item arriving on a checkout conveyor belt and then make sure it’s scanned correctly, earning more points for the number of products you process. You’ve got to be quick on the draw, though, because groceries can pile up fast if you’re not careful.

Matt Fisher and his team at KumoTek Robotics took the traditional interactive exhibit experience one step further in their recent Red Dirt Dinos exhibit for the Oklahoma Museum Network. Instead of creating dinosaurs that would only respond to actions based on the location, position and number of faces in a crowd, the dinosaurs in Matt’s exhibit detect full body gestures with the help of a Microsoft Kinect.

In the city of New Orleans, a technology solution from Microsoft and Motorola Solutions is drawing on the potential of the Internet of Things to vastly streamline the ways in which 9-1-1 dispatchers communicate with officers and first responders.

Through an exclusive partnership with Twitter, Bing is rolling out a fast and intuitive way to discover tweets directly in its search results. Now when you search for a trending hashtag, Bing will show the most relevant tweets directly in the search results – in near real-time.