KinEmote Public Beta

The Kinect has been hacked yet again and this time by coders keen to get it running on their Boxee software.KinEmote Public Beta turens Kinect into Boxee Gesture remote control and now tou can control Windows applications with MicroSoft Kinect……

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Robots, Quadrocopters and an Invisibility Cloak

Kinect’s 3D sensor is so cheap and effective that it’s getting bolted onto any robot that moves, and quadrotors are just the latest victims. UC Berkeley’s quadrotor is using the Kinect for autonomous flight and dynamic obstacle avoidance, and as long as you don’t come at it from behind, it works great.

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Xbox 360 special edition bundles on Best Buy

When it comes to the special edition consoles, they aren’t cheap. Then again, they’re special, and they include more in the box than you’d normally get in just the “stock” box. So, that makes sense. So when they go on any kind of sale, you can see why we’d get pretty excited. Special Edition Xbox 360s are bound to carry more expensive price tags but it looks like Best Buy will be offering could care less……

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