Open-source hackers are creating an entire ecosystem with Microsoft’s Kinect, ushering in a new era of gesture-controlled inventions.   Hackers have transformed the $150 Xbox add-on into a platform for everything from artificial vision aids [...]

A self-taught inventor in Africa devised a mobile phone-based anti-theft device for cars, combining technology from some of past projects to stop car thieves in their tracks. Morris Mbetsa, an 18-year-old in Mombasa, Kenya, with [...]