Microsoft’s Kinect is a smash hit in both the consumer and hacker worlds, but does it have a shot to make a splash in the realm of medicine? Before you jump to the wrong conclusion, the Kinect is not ...

As all the amazing innovations have been coming through involving Microsoft’s highly versatile Kinect controller, I’ve even imagined that it might be useful for robotic microsurgery—it makes sense ...

It's clear that geeks do not intend to let the Kinect be solely for use with the Xbox 360. We have seen all sorts of hacks and mods that use the Kinect already and the thing hasn't been on the market ...

We’ve seen the Xbox 360 Kinect control robots before, but never robots with tasks this important. A group of graduate engineering students at the University of Washington are using Microsoft’s device ...

Fredrik Ryden is a graduate student from Sweden working with University of Washington Electrical Engineering Professors. His goal, to one day make surgeries safer for doctors by using virtual ...

I am all for hacking the Kinect to be used for things that it was never intended to be used for. Things like controlling my PC games or controlling a robot are one thing. Using the Kinect to control ...

We're sure that a time will come when we're slightly less amazed by Kinect hacks but, right now, we're still just seeing one more impressive than the last — and we're certainly OK with that. This ...

In the best Kinect application since the device turned a dude into Ultraman, doctors in Toronto are using Microsoft's camera tech to speed up surgery, reports The Canadian Press. Surgeons at ...

Walking the floor at Microsoft’s conference center in Redmond, Wash., yesterday for the conclusion of the company's three-month Kinect Accelerator program for startups, it was remarkable to see not ...

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While the internet is abuzz this week with talk of the Star Wars franchise’s Kinect debut, Microsoft wants to remind you that its motion control hardware isn’t all play. Last fall the company ...