When the Kinect launched, Adafruit Industries ran a contest for the first person who released open-source code to extract video and depth from the Kinect. Adafruit also ended up donating to the EFF after the contest was over. When I was in grad school, I would have loved to have a device like the Kinect....Read More

With movies from Netflix, games from ESPN, music from Last.fm, and status updates from Twitter, Microsoft has evolved the Xbox 360 into a premium content delivery device, not just a game console. Now, with its new Kinect motion-controller system, the company has the means to turn the Xbox 360 into a hyper-targeted ad platform. After...Read More