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Microsoft's Kinect, now picking out your perfect jeans

Friday, March 16, 2012 - 8:13am

Welcome to the future of trying on jeans: instead of stepping into a dressing room with a pair you think will fit, you'll instead enter the fitting room of tomorrow, equipped with a ring of eight Kinect sensors. They'll see your body from every angle and, after mapping your contours in mere seconds, knows exactly what pair of pants will fit you best.

Microsoft's transparent concept PC lets you poke apps in 3D space

Raymond Wong

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 11:56am

The desktop metaphor is dead. Long live the post-PC is all we ever hear these days. What we don't see very often is how computer desktops can be improved with 3D depth. Watch this demo of a transparent OLED display paired with a Kinect sensor and tell me this isn't making you lust for a Minority Report future.

Kinect-enabled shopping cart is smarter than the shopper

Eileen Marable

Tuesday, February 28, 2012 - 9:00am

Microsoft has just demoed a Kinect-enabled prototype shopping cart designed to take the guesswork out of your trip to the grocery store. All of the guesswork. In fact, all you are required to do is upload a shopping list and place items in the cart.

Kinect for Windows now out, SDK supports four sensors for one PC

Raymond Wong

Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 8:59am

A new Kinect is here, sorta. Microsoft is now selling a slightly tweaked (but way more accurate) Kinect sensor for Windows PCs that could revolutionize entire industries, in the same way the iPad has transformed entire industries.

Asus prototyping laptops with built-in Kinect sensors

Raymond Wong

Friday, January 27, 2012 - 10:46am

With a sea of Ultrabooks coming out soon and Windows 8 on track for a release by the end of the year, it's time PC makers start differentiating themselves. Tobii's eye-tracking tech is really cool, and word on the block is that Asus is working to integrate Kinect sensors directly into laptops.

Solar powered house saves energy with Kinect

Eileen Marable

Tuesday, January 24, 2012 - 8:16am

For as long as people have been envisioning the house of the future, it almost always features control initiated with the briefest of gestures. Now, in the name of conserving energy that vision could come true with a solar house designed to use an Xbox Kinect to switch off energy consuming devices with simple movements.

Microsoft's Kinect could keep an eye astronauts' weight

Eileen Marable

Monday, December 26, 2011 - 6:56am

Kinect is expected to branch out into small business and banking in 2012. Now the gaming system's sensors could be adapted as a next generation weight measurement system onboard the International Space Station. It would relay data via 3D modeling, and require less space than the current equipment.

Rumor: Next-gen Kinect is so accurate it can read your lips

Raymond Wong

Monday, November 28, 2011 - 6:44am

New Windows-optimized Kinect hardware is coming in 2012, but another disturbance in the Force says that a super accurate Kinect 2 will be bundled with all future Xboxes.

Microsoft in talks with TV makers to include built-in Kinect

Raymond Wong

Thursday, November 24, 2011 - 8:41am

Having a gesture-detecting peripheral for Xbox 360 and plans for a refined PC version of Kinect isn't enough for Microsoft. It wants Kinect to become the new remote control from the moment you unbox your new TV.

Microsoft will sell new Windows-optimized Kinect in 2012

Raymond Wong

Wednesday, November 23, 2011 - 7:31am

Kinect's a cool piece of kit that's received a lot of hacking love and Microsoft is pushing it as a platform for businesses next year. But Kinect works best at six to eight feet. We sit at computers that are two feet away. See the problem?

DVICE

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Kinect stories

Microsoft's Kinect, now picking out your perfect jeans

Microsoft's transparent concept PC lets you poke apps in 3D space

Kinect-enabled shopping cart is smarter than the shopper

Kinect for Windows now out, SDK supports four sensors for one PC

Asus prototyping laptops with built-in Kinect sensors

Solar powered house saves energy with Kinect

Microsoft's Kinect could keep an eye astronauts' weight

Rumor: Next-gen Kinect is so accurate it can read your lips

Microsoft in talks with TV makers to include built-in Kinect

Microsoft will sell new Windows-optimized Kinect in 2012

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