[Photo: University of Konstanz] Kinect hacks seem to be getting better and better. From being hacked to work with Windows 7 all the way to the recent Evil Genious simulator, there’s now even more ...

Who knew Kinect could work just as well snapped into a regular PC as an Xbox 360? Hector Martin, that’s who. Martin took up a challenge issued by Adafruit Industries to uncork Kinect’s mysterious ...

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Soon, you may not necessarily need to be fluent in American Sign Language (ASL) in order to interpret it. Scientists have hacked Microsoft's Xbox Kinect motion control sensor to read ASL. The ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. DIY hardware champions adafruit industries want somebody to come up with a set of open source drivers for Microsoft's Kinect, so anyone can run the ...

There's not much business in making gadgets for archaeologists, but that has not stopped the modern day Indiana Jones types from adapting the tools of other trades for their painstaking explorations ...

Medal of Honor's creators think the negative press surrounding their game prior to its release is to blame for its average review scores. What, did Fox News start reviewing games or something? News ...

Remember the 90's obsession with virtual reality, the bulky goggles and terrible movies it inspired? It's back. Remember Nao_u's Kinect VR hack? He's back, and thanks ...

If I had half the brain power that it took to hack my Xbox 360’s Kinect camera into a home automation system, you can bet sure money that I’d be doing backflips down the streets, bragging to anyone I ...

Hacker's have had their way with Microsoft's Kinect as soon as it hit store shelves. Thanks to the peripheral's gesture and movement recognition, they were able to make it do all kinds of cool shit.

Right, you’re saying, because tooling around in a plush La-Z-Boy has so many practical uses, but extrapolate from this Kinect hack and you might imagine all sorts of serious medical applications–say ...