All the stories tagged with kinect
Kinect Helps Patients Feel At Ease
11/20/2012, Being hospitalized is no fun for anyone, and it can be an emotionally as well as financially draining time for the family involved. Well, in order to up the fun factor while reducing all the stress and glum looks at [...]
Microsoft’s New Patent Is Pure, Privacy-Invading Evil
11/06/2012, Here’s a new, innovative Kinect patent. It uses the Kinect cameras to count how many users watching the television, and can take “remedial action” if there are more people watching than the number of licenses you paid for. Seriously! Conceivably, if [...]
Microsoft’s patent describes a way in which your movie watching could be regulated via the Kinect
11/06/2012, When you watch a movie in a cinema, the tickets are sold on a per-individual basis, which means that if you and your friend wanted to watch the movie, both of you would have to buy a ticket each. However [...]
3Gear Systems’ Kinect setup could replace your computer’s mouse
10/05/2012, We know that Microsoft’s Kinect is capable of more than just gaming, and the folks at 3Gear Systems have come up with an interesting way to use it as a possible replacement for your mouse. Through the use of gestures, [...]
Microsoft’s Kinect appears in Paranormal Activity 4, used to detect ghosts
09/28/2012, We’ve all seen Microsoft’s Kinect being used in the medical field, the financial field and even automotive field where customers can inspect a car model virtually if the model does not happen to be in stock. Well now it looks [...]
eyeSight gesture control can code motion control into any camera
09/24/2012, One of the most widely-used and commercially successful motion-sensing pieces of hardware has been Microsoft’s Kinect. Microsoft bundled it up with its Xbox game console and since then, Kinect has been flying right off the shelves. However, until now, we [...]
Kinect e-mail hack allows stroke victim to communicate electronically
09/11/2012, Stroke can be quite a disabling disease if it is a serious case, and for those who have had the language centers of their brain impaired, even everyday things that we used to take for granted such as writing or [...]
Nissan rolls out Kinect-powered showrooms across the US
08/27/2012, Don’t you just hate it when you go to a store to buy something you’ve been eyeing for a long time, only to find out that they’re sold out to the point where the display models are no longer available [...]
Microsoft Kinect gets price drop to $109.99
08/22/2012, You know what they say – good things always come to those who wait, but then again, there is always a price to pay if you are an early adopter. Case in point, the Microsoft Kinect system that was introduced [...]
NBA 2K13 to feature Kinect compatibility according to Amazon listing
08/03/2012, 2K Sports has been slowly releasing new bits of news for its upcoming NBA game, NBA 2K 13, each month. It was recently revealed that Jay Z would be an executive producer for the game’s soundtrack, which will be mentioned [...]
Kinect could see action in mobile cameras thanks to Microsoft patent
08/02/2012, Microsoft’s Kinect has certainly had its fair share of hacks in the past, and I must say that some of those hacks are very impressive to say the least. Well, the latest information from the street would be Microsoft being [...]
Microsoft Kinect powered trash can moves around to catch rubbish
07/26/2012, I am quite sure than many of us have tried throwing a crunched up piece of paper towards the waste basket in an effort to replicate our basketball heroes who tend to make the money shots whenever they are on [...]
Smart Trashbox is Kinect enabled, making sure you will never miss another shot
07/24/2012, We’re sure that everybody’s played this game at home, school or the office where they have pretended to be basketball players and tried throwing trash into trash cans from far. Well the folks at Japan, who have been known to [...]
