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This iPod-Sized USB Dongle For Your Mac Makes The Kinect Look Like A Drunk, Stumbling Uncle
Imagine that you could buy a tiny USB-powered box that detected your motion like Microsoft’s Kinect, only instead of watching you jump around a room, it watched your hands and fingers. Imagine that the box was sensitive enough to track the tip of a pencil tracing out letters in a 1cm square...
Small USB dongle for your Mac makes Microsoft's Kinect look like a drunk, stumbling uncle (with video)
Instead of watching you jump around a room, it watches your hands and fingers make tiny movements...
Kinect Can Read Your Facial Expressions Now [Kinect]
With a host of improvements rumored for the next Kinect, it's a little surprising to see that there's still room for the current Kinect to get better: Microsoft has added face tracking capabilities to Kinect for Windows through a software update. Which means, Kinect will be able to read and react...
Is This the Best Gesture Control System Ever? [Video]
Gesture control as we know it is rudimentary at best. But a new San Francisco startup called Leap Motion has just announced a new 3D motion control system that its claims is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market—and it's set to cost just $70.More »
I Let a Weird Man Rub Me for 10 Minutes, in the Name of Journalism [Video]
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Microsoft Can Detect Your Gestures Using Just Your Computer's Audio [Video]
Kinect has drawn a huge amount of interest, not just from gamers but computer scientists, engineers and artists. Now, it seems Microsoft is branching out, because one of its latest research projects offers gesture control powered by just a computer's speakers, microphone, and some inaudible soun...
You Can Get an Xbox/Kinect for $99 Now [Dealzmodo]
We heard about a crazy $99 Xbox/Kinect bundle last week, but we weren't sure what the catch would be. Now we do: You need to sign up for a two-year $15 per month Xbox Live Gold contract. Not bad!More »
This Augmented Reality Sand Box Is More Fun Than Anything You Had as a Kid [Video]
Technology is transforming the way kids play and learn. But this new sand box is a complete revelation: using Kinect to gather depth information it teaches kids about topography and can even simulate water without making a mess.More »
Microsoft Will Sell Xbox 360 AND Kinect for Only $100 (...With a Contract?) [Xbox]
The convoluted world of cell contracts and cable subscriptions just hit the awesome world of console gaming, and spit out a very exciting baby: an Xbox 360 and Kinect bundle that costs only $100, says the Verge. But there's a catch.More »
This Is What Happens When You Cross a Kinect With a DSLR [Video]
If you've ever wondered what a Kinect with DSLR image resolution might be like... well, you'll have to wait. But for now, this is the next best thing: called RGBDToolkit, it's a project designed to layer HD video over Kinect's depth maps. And it's pretty neat.More »
