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Microsoft Kinect Technology Coming To Laptop

Monday January 30, 2012
Microsoft Kinect Technology Coming To Laptop

Kinect is really wonderful for Xbox 360 where we can play games with our body movement and extract some sweats for a healthier gaming experience. This device has really chance the way we interact with games or applications, and perhaps it will be the key to decrease the obesity rate in the States. We have [...]

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Deals

Hot Deal – Free $50 Amazon Credit On Xbox 360 Kinect Bundle

Friday April 29, 2011
Hot Deal – Free $50 Amazon Credit On Xbox 360 Kinect Bundle

For today only – Amazon is giving out a $50 free Amazon credit if you purchase the Xbox 360 4GB with Kinect Bundle. The overall price is $299.99, that’s mean you can save $50 (indirectly) if you don’t want to use the credit for now. What you will get in the bundle is one Xbox [...]

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Consoles

Microsoft Finally Sold Over 10 Million Units Kinect Hardware

Thursday March 10, 2011
Microsoft Finally Sold Over 10 Million Units Kinect Hardware

The result is pretty predictable. After selling more than 2.5 Million Kinect in the first month, 8 Million Kinect in the second month, reaching to 10 Million is very possible and predictable. Microsoft has stated that they’ve finally sold over 10 million units Kinect, and it’s one of the fastest selling consumer electronic that ever [...]

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Gaming Gadgets

Kinetris: Playing Tetris with Kinect

Monday March 7, 2011
Kinetris: Playing Tetris with Kinect

The recent Kinect hack has brought Tetris into the spotlight. Done by Conan Chen, this Kinetris project is a hack to turn you into a Tetris controller. Kinetris, unlike the classic tetris game, Conan-Chen has designed it to have the shape previewed before the actual blocks dropped from the sky. You can then choose the [...]

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Fun Gadgets

Kinect Hacks To Work With Dead Space 2, And You Can Stomp Your Enemies!

Monday February 14, 2011
Kinect Hacks To Work With Dead Space 2, And You Can Stomp Your Enemies!

Kinect has been hacked again to work together with Wiimote. The recent hack is using Dead Space 2 as the white mouse, and the hacker is using FAAST emulator for Kinect and GlovePIE for Wiimote. It sure pretty interesting hack where you can move around your dead space 2 character, and the author of this [...]

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Gaming Gadgets

Kinect Hacked To See Yourself In Minecraft Blocks Statue

Monday January 24, 2011
Kinect Hacked To See Yourself In Minecraft Blocks Statue

There are many cool Kinect Hacks that we have found in the past with most of them has their own twist to show what Kinect is capable of. Now this latest hack is made Kinect to work with Minecraft and let users to view themselves as a giant ‘monster’ built from Minecraft blocks in real [...]

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Gaming Gadgets

Microsoft Sold 8 Million Kinect In 60 Days

Friday January 7, 2011
Microsoft Sold 8 Million Kinect In 60 Days

After reaching their checkpoint of 2.5 Million Units Sold, Kinect has passed through another impressive checkpoint where they’ve just sold over 8 millions units of Kinect in just 60 days!

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Deals

$399.99 For Xbox 360 Slim With Kinect Bundle

Wednesday January 5, 2011
$399.99 For Xbox 360 Slim With Kinect Bundle

If you are interested to buy Xbox 360 Slim with Kinect, there is a new bundle deal right now available in several online store like Amazon. You can get both Xbox 360 Slim 250GB and Kinect hardware together in one bundle for $399.99 only, which is practically $50 cheaper than buying separately. Go to Amazon [...]

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Gadget Concepts

Kinect Hacks: Pair Up With Vuzix VR920 To Create Virtual Reality Environment

Wednesday December 22, 2010
Kinect Hacks: Pair Up With Vuzix VR920 To Create Virtual Reality Environment

Tracking body movement with Kinect sensor is not a new stuff anymore. However, how about using kinect hacks to track your movement, while your eyes can fully emerged into the virtual reality where you can play balls or walk in the virtual park like real? Now, that’s certainly a fresh experience that anyone would love [...]

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Gaming Gadgets

Kinect Air Guitar Hack That Detects Hand Position

Sunday December 12, 2010
Kinect Air Guitar Hack That Detects Hand Position

The library of Kinect Hacks is growing! After a series of cool hacks using OpenKinect, now we have got a new hack for Kinect that brought out a fully functional virtual guitar on the screen using the help of C++m OpenFrameworks and openCV.

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Gaming Gadgets

Kinect Hacked To Mimic Minority Report UI

Thursday December 9, 2010
Kinect Hacked To Mimic Minority Report UI

If you remember how Tom Cruise access to his minority report in the movie, you’ll soon be able to get the same motion based User Interface to work with your photo browsing or other stuff using a hacked Kinect hardware.

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Consoles

Microsoft Sold Over 2.5 Millions Of Kinect Hardware

Tuesday November 30, 2010
Microsoft Sold Over 2.5 Millions Of Kinect Hardware

After 25 days from their first launch day, Microsoft has sold over 2.5 millions of Kinect Hardware. It was announced from the day one that Microsoft has sold 1 million unit, so after 25 days they’ve collected another 1.5 millions of sales which sum up to 2.5 million Kinect sold. It’s really a great sales [...]

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