XRCE's TeXnology Showroom, in Grenoble, France, provides a place for Xerox research laboratories from around the world to demonstrate their innovative ideas in an informal, "hands-on" environment. Created in 1995, the Showroom has a dual mission: to present the fruits of Xerox's research activities to customers in an educational and interactive way, and to monitor and gather reactions to new ideas that can be fed back into the research and development cycle.