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Welcome to Microsoft Stories - a new podcast looking at technology and the people who use it. In this series, I’m trying to answer the question: what is innovation? It means different things to different people. Innovation can be as simple as adding an eraser to the end of a pencil or as complex as sending people to the Moon. What does it mean to be innovative? How do you know you’re being innovative? Along my journey, I meet people using technology in amazing ways, and discover what innovat ...
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In this episode we focus on Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service, one of the largest fire services in the UK. It looks after 12,000 square kilometres that includes numerous mountains and 650 kilometres of coastline. It's also an organisation steeped in tradition. So when Chris Davies became Chief Fire Officer, he made it his mission to drag i…
In this episode we are visiting Dimension Studio, a Microsoft mixed-reality partner that creates incredible experiences using holograms. Dimension has worked with stars such as Madonna, boxer Anthony Joshua and tennis player Andy Murray. It also helped to create a hologram of a model, so she could see herself walking down the catwalk. Dimension is …
In this episode we focus on the famous Abbey Road studio in London, which has been used by musicians such as The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Sir Edward Elgar, and was used to record the scores to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Empire Strikes Back, Gravity and Black Panther. Specifically, we will be looking at Abbey Road's music technology incubator…
Hello and welcome to Microsoft Stories, a new podcast about technology and innovation. In this episode we focus on Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, which runs some of the busiest hospitals in London. Staff are wearing Microsoft HoloLens, the mixed-reality headset, as they work in high-risk areas. This has been useful during the COVID-19 pande…
In this episode we are focusing on Project Natick, a Microsoft research project that placed data centres in the sea and powered them using renewable energy. The aim is to see if data centres can be deployed closer to the people, businesses and organisations who use them. Almost half of the world’s population lives within 120 miles of the ocean, so …
In this episode we are focusing on OceanMind, a UK company that's using Microsoft's Azure cloud platform to help protect oceans and tackle illegal fishing across the world. The work undertaken by CEO Nick Wise and his staff has a positive impact on the sustainability of our planet and human rights issues. We chatted to Nick about innovation at Ocea…
Hello, and welcome to Microsoft Stories, a new podcast about technology and innovation. In this episode we hear about the Xbox Adaptive Controller, which makes it easier for people with limited mobility to play videogames. The controller allows gamers to connect to external buttons, switches, mounts and joysticks, giving them an easy-to-set-up and …
In this episode, we hear about Project Tokyo, an incredible solution for people who are blind that was created in Microsoft's Cambridge Research Lab. You will hear from Principal Researcher Cecily Morrison, who led a group that adapted a Microsoft HoloLens headset. When a person who is blind puts on the headset, it will call out the names of the pe…
In this episode, we hear from Anna and Cameron McLean, who spent 43 days rowing across the Atlantic Ocean. When they had completed the 3,000-mile journey, they had set two world records: the first brother and sister to row across an ocean, and the fastest mixed-sex pair to row across the Atlantic. This is the story of their journey, but it's also m…
Welcome to Microsoft Stories - a new podcast looking at technology and the people who use it. In this series, I’m trying to answer the question: what is innovation? What does it mean to be innovative? How do you know you’re being innovative? Along my journey, I meet people using technology in amazing ways, and discover what innovation means to them…
