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We Have Finally Reached the Real Minority Report with Kinect

It didn’t take long for programmers to get from making the Kinect open sourced to creating a real life version of Minority Report. In the video below, you’ll see that another programmer from MIT has made his Kinect learn where both palms are as well as track each of his ten fingers.  This is a

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Science and Tech
Nelson Abalos

MIT Group develops Web Browsing with Kinect

You have to hand it to those kids over at the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT for creating some of the coolest inventions to date. On 25 November, Fluid released a new video, which can be seen past the break.  In this video, the group demonstrates using a web browser with a Microsoft Kinect unit.

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Gaming
Raul Valle

Indie Game Spotlight: Prismatic Solid

Independent games definitely seem to be finding their place these days, especially with digital distribution starting to come into its own as a viable distribution system. As such, Microsoft’s XNA Game Studio software has been a great way to provide indie developers with tools necessary to get their games from the planning stage and into

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Gaming
Rett

Top 5 Reasons the Xbox 360 Sucks

On my last list, I took out my wrath on the sweet little unsuspecting Wii. Now I am setting my sights on bigger prey. Microsoft‘s XBox 360 has been a huge hit this generation, and millions of people have picked it as their console of choice. But I am not here to sit at the

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