Tag: Kinect
Kinect SwimBrowser: Surf The Internet Doing The Breast Stroke
We all know what great exercise swimming is. When I first read about this, I thought, "Great! Now we can swim, get exercise and surf the web all at the same time." That's true if you can hack your Kinect the way David Stolarsky did.
For the 2011 PrimeSense/OpenNI Developer Challenge, he created ...
The Kiss Controller: Video Game Controlled By Smooches
Well dang, this could be better than Kinect! Instead of using your body as the controller, you use your tongue. Ok, maybe it's not better than Kinect, but it still looks like a lot of fun. This little gadget combines two of life's guilty pleasures, kissing and playing video games. That's right, ...
Kinect Hack Used To Create Stunning Music Video
I have previously touched on the subject of creative music videos, and how they are made. Some people do what everyone else does, and some just hit the ball out of the park. It's a pleasure when that happens since I think the stereotype movie creators tend to throw too many safe cards around thems ...
This Is Jada: The First Working Badminton Robot In The World
Sports have always been the main activity for kids to get their butts out the door. For grown-ups, it's a bit different since with age we seem to slow down on the activities a little and become couch potatoes. But with technology changing, we are getting some really cool and nifty things that will ...
Microsoft Surface 2.0: Will It Stun Us THIS Time Around?
I remember a couple of years ago when I first saw the Microsoft Surface technology being demoed in a series of clips. I was amazed by the technology and the features it had, but I couldn't quite see the killer use it would bring to the world. It's one of those things that everyone should think abo ...
Bling Bling! The Bejeweled Xbox 360 Kinect
In today's society, there are two ways to definitely know if you've "made it." First, if there is a WikiLeak about you, you've got it going on. Secondly, if someone covers you or a gadget you've created in Swarovski crystals, you've made it for sure.
We've all seen the iPhones, fancy cars, cake ...
Kinect Hack: Air Guitar Prototype Makes Anyone A Guitar Guru!
With every hack that is revealed for the Kinect, I get more and more excited about the future. I don't understand why it took so long for us to understand the importance of the Kinect technology, and why there aren't more people looking into it (and that's not saying there isn't a lot of people doi ...
Kinect Hack: Minority Report User Interface Duplicated!
Not too long ago, it was considered the holy grail to create an exact replica of the movie Minority Report's awesome user interface. Until the Kinect came along, there really hasn't been any technology for programmers and hackers to play with to recreate the hand gesture driven technology. But tha ...
Kinect Hack Makes Future Navigation Just Like Minority Report!
The more I get into this new and exciting piece of technology, the more I understand what a huge impact it will have. Not only will it impact gaming, but also pretty much every area that has to do with computers. Some "hackers" have prompted that the technology behind the Kinect is significantly m ...
Kinect: Hacked To Let You Interact As A Puppeteer!
Even though I hate to admit it, I must say that I am still very new to the whole Kinect movement. Sure, I have seen my share of vids and demonstrations, but I am still to get into the technology behind it. What's clear is that it is a truly interesting and useful tool in not only gaming, but in a ...