Video game-loving researchers have rigged up a set of laser tweezers controlled using Microsoft's Kinect motion-sensor. David McGloin and colleagues at the University of Dundee, Scotland, have ...

With the aid of a Microsoft Kinect, a laser range finder and a laptop, MIT researchers have built a wearable piece of gear that maps a building in real time. The prototype SLAM (Simultaneous ...

A zoetrope is a device that contains a disk full with a series of images that make up and animation. A couple of different methods can be used to trick the eye into seeing a single animated image. In ...

Sick of going to the club to party it up and dance the night away? No longer do you have to leave your own home; now you can bring the party to you and pump it up with a Kinect hack laser show and ...

With the introduction of the Kinect, obtaining a 3D representation of a room or object became a much easier task than it had been in the past. If you lack the necessary cash for one however, you have ...

Microsoft’s Kinect is a motion-sensing device that allows people to control Xbox video games using body movements alone. It consists of a webcam-like camera for creating an image of players, an ...

Scientists and hackers continue to show that Microsoft's Kinect platform is a boundless source of both creative and useful applications. The latest, a project called HoloHands, seems like something ...

Want to have a party like a blast? How about using the latest technology that DJ+IBk-s are using nowadays? With the use of the Kinect sensor, Touch Designer DMX and with the control of the pan-tilt of ...

When an autonomous Google Lexus came across two tiny sandbags on the road in California last month, it slowed down and stopped. Then, it pulled out around the bags, straight into the side of a city ...

Anthropometry for measuring body composition, shape, surface area and volume is important for human clinical research and practice. Although training and technical skills are required for traditional ...

When most of us play video games, our greatest accomplishment is the mound of Cheetos dust we can collect in a single sitting. At MIT, researchers have hacked the Microsoft Kinect’s laser into a ...