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TECHi reporting and analysis covering Kinect. 27 articles, newest first.

A company called Tactical Haptics demonstrated their new device at GDC 2013 last month. The company was founded by Professor William Provancher earlier...

With over 70 million consoles sold since it was unveiled in May, 2005, the Xbox 360 is one of the most popular game consoles ever created. Many of the...

The Pez is strong with this one. If there's one thing we've learned about true geeks over the years, it's that they love Star Wars in any form.

Sony started teasing a big event that they'll be hosting on February 20th. Much of the blogosphere is buzzing that it may be the announcement of the…

Clever. Tasty. Creepy. Hot Pop Factory has been able to make a name for itself by generating creative pieces of jewelry using 3D printers.

Play Angry Birds with chop sticks. Browse web pages without a mouse or touchscreen. Sign a document within 1 centimeter with pinpoint accuracy. These are...

It could be a play to increase the number of Internet Explorer users. It could be a differentiator between them and Playstation. It could be both. Either...

With any payment plan, you will likely pay more than you would if you bought the product up front. That's the case with the latest offer from Xbox, but...


I suppose we should have expected it. Those of us who have dreamed of battling as a Jedi with real lightsabers have been waiting for a virtual version (so...

Sit back, and relax. For the rest of your life. Quite possibly the coolest Kinect hack yet has come from Microsoft itself - in the form of this...

If there's one thing the Kinect is good for, it's facilitating interesting and downright clever hacks. Obviously.

What outpaced the ubiquitous Apple iPad and iPhone in terms of sales? According to the Guinness World Records, it’s the Kinect for the Xbox 360.

Steven Bathiche might have just become Microsoft's most popular developer for the time being. He has created a slew of new tech demos utilizing Microsoft Kinect that will enable users to interact with displays in ways

From an industry perspective, 2010 was a fascinating year in video games. We saw both Microsoft and Sony successfully release motion control add-ons to…

Ever since Microsoft's Kinect hit the market, it has been a hot accessory for the Xbox 360. However, it was only a matter of time before some clever hackers…

How cool is this? The answer, before you read any further or watch the video for additional information, is this: really cool. The Biological Cybernetics Lab at Tsukuba University here demonstrate a robotic arm that

If you have been following Techi, you probably have seen unusual uses for the Kinect. A gesture-controlled robot might have been something you looked into, or you might have found out how you could learn to dance using

While skepticism remains high about how much success Kinect can achieve, Microsoft is proud to shove that skepticism in people's faces.

In many ways, Xbox 360 Kinect is simply another tech product. Microsoft, like so many companies before it, is attempting to expand its demographic reach and…

Surely you've seen your share of Kinect hacks in the last little while - hell, even last week I posted a couple here on Techi.

A TECHi archive story on an MIT Kinect robotics demo, with context on how gesture control and depth sensing fed later robotics and AI systems.

Because you're awesome, have this quick video of Mehmet Akten playing with his prototype for a 3D art program for use with the newly-hacked Kinect.

We're not gonna be foolin' you with some controller waving and wagging. No, seriously, this is it. Real dancing with a console game. With the XBOX Kinect and the game Dance Central , this is possible. No longer are we