After Microsoft, Bringing a High-Tech Eye to Professional Kitchens

Inside a nondescript warehouse on a nondescript street of this Seattle suburb is a research laboratory that looks like it came out of a James Bond movie–had Q the gadget master been a gastronome.

Here Nathan Myhrvold, a former chief technology officer at Microsoft (MSFT), and his company, Intellectual Ventures, pursue an eclectic array of speculative and potentially world-changing ideas–inventing a new battery, taming hurricanes, defeating disease. And here, along with the laser designed to shoot mosquitoes out of the air (a high-speed camera counts the rate of wing-flapping to ensure that innocent insects are not vaporized), is the best-equipped restaurant kitchen anywhere that never serves any customers.

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