In a statement to our sister site Gamespot, Microsoft has backed down from its legal threats against the Kinect Linux "hack" of Hector Martin. Martin will get $3,000 from Adafruit for developing the ...

Right, you’re saying, because tooling around in a plush La-Z-Boy has so many practical uses, but extrapolate from this Kinect hack and you might imagine all sorts of serious medical applications–say ...

Hacker's have had their way with Microsoft's Kinect as soon as it hit store shelves. Thanks to the peripheral's gesture and movement recognition, they were able to make it do all kinds of cool shit.

Today, Microsoft announced it will release a non-commercial Kinect for Windows software development kit from Microsoft Research later this spring. The intent of releasing a “starter kit” for ...