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Automated Shopping Cart: Most Awesome Kinect Project Yet?
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Geeks have been doing all sorts of wild things with Microsoft Kinect sensor since Microsoft launched it. The Kinect for Windows sensor hasn’t been around as long as the original gaming sensor, but it already has one of the most awesome uses I’ve ever seen for anything Microsoft manufactured. What… |
February 28th, 2012
Starfield Kinect Swing Probably Would Make You Pretty Dizzy
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The Microsoft Kinect has been used for all sorts of interesting interactive experiments and artworks since it first came on the scene. It’s clear that these alternative uses for the motion sensing technology are often more compelling than the games themselves. This particular Kinect hack uses the gadget to put… |
February 21st, 2012
Sony Makes Their Own Holodeck (with Projection Mapping)
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Using a variety of visual tricks, including projection mapping, props, and motion-tracking, Sony managed to create some of the most mind-blowing visual illusions I’ve ever seen on video, bringing to life a sort of virtual “holodeck” for us to feast our eyes on.… |
December 1st, 2011
Simraceway SRW-S1 Racing Controller Now Available for Speed Freaks
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Do you feel the need for speed? SteelSeries hears ya and they can help. The Simraceway SRW-S1 racing wheel is now available for all of your racing/bank heist/running people over needs.… |
November 18th, 2011
Gaming on the Nintendo Ds, Samurai Style
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This video is quite old in Internet time, but now that the Wii, Xbox 360 and the PS3 are all fighting the motion gaming war, it’s only apt to showcase YouTube user blaues01′s motion gaming hack for the Nintendo DS. Especially because it involves a samurai sword. Granted, blaues01′s hack… |
November 27th, 2010
Hacking Kinect: 3d Model Capture
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Let the Kinect hacking begin! Less than a month after the motion-detection camera hit shelves, hackers are starting to figure out all sorts of cool stuff you can do with Microsoft’s Xbox 360 wonder-gadget.… |
November 14th, 2010
Green Hisaver Power Strip Senses Motion to Save Power
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Being geeky and green can be tough if you have a bunch of high-end power slurping computers running in your house. I like to leave my computer running all the time, so it can backup and do its business while I sleep. I would bet lots of geeks out there… |
September 26th, 2010
Gesture Cube Offers Next-Gen User Interface
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It seems like we’ve been using keyboards and mice for decades now (and yes, we have). Will there ever be a better way to interact with a computer? Probably, and you can bet that it will probably be touch or motion sensor-based. This Gesture Cube kind of reminds me of… |
February 5th, 2010
String Trio Turns Your iPhone Into an Air Violin
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We’ve featured a variety of iPhone musical instruments around here, including pianos, guitars, drums, and even ocarinas, but this is the first time I’ve come across an app that lets you play your iPhone like it was a violin, viola or cello. Just load up greySox String Trio, choose a… |
December 28th, 2009
Microvision and Intel Demo Pocket Projector Game Controller
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I’ll start out by saying that I’m really not all that excited by all the pocket projectors that have started to flood the market. At least not yet. I mean really, how many of us really need a tiny dim projector when we’ve got giant 60-inch LCDs and Plasmas in… |
December 11th, 2009
