Admit it: Sometimes you just want to punch your PC, or slap your smartphone, or knock your notebook. We all get riled by technology once in a while, with all those feeble batteries, endless... Read more
Basketball, soccer, baseball–these are all fine sports. But wouldn’t they be even more fun if they could be released from the boring, been-there-done-that laws of physics? This is what... Read more
Ubi Interactive has moved one step forward toward achieving visuals seen in science- fiction movies for years. Ubi with assistance from Microsoft has created technology that will turn any su... Read more
Harnessing the power of Ford’s open-source platform OpenXC, 3D printing, Bluetooth and a Xbox 360, one of the Detroit automobile manufacturer’s engineers has created a manual shift gear knob... Read more
CVG has the word about Microsoft’s next technology that’s supposedly being developed for the next Xbox console. This new gaming tech denotes a breakthrough device, currently refe... Read more
Humans are being asked to help robots recognise the multitude of objects found in the average home. Swedish researchers are asking people to use their Xbox’s Kinect sensor as a scanner... Read more
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-... Read more
Programming robots to mimic human behavior remains difficult Ever since Rosey the Robot took care of “The Jetsons” in the early 1960s, the promise of robots making everyday life easier has b... Read more
We chat to a Kinect developer about some unconventional uses for the device. Microsoft’s Kinect has been something of a success at retail since its launch last year, breaking all kinds... Read more
The winning team will get a $10,000 prize The idea is to extend the Kinect’s potential uses from gaming to things like interpreting lipreading and sign language as well as determining... Read more