Geeks are hacking the Kinect for all sorts of things all around the world. I like the Kinect most when it's used to control a robot, but there are all sorts of other cool things that the Kinect can do ...

We have featured quite a few different Microsoft Kinect hacks here at Geeky Gadgets, and the latest one uses the Kinect to control home automation systems. This innovative hack allows the user to ...

Microsoft plans to soon release a software development kit allowing hobbyists and academics to build applications for its Kinect motion sensor on Windows 7 machines. But many developers aren’t waiting ...

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7jeJSdJPpk&w=620&h=355] Ja! A gentleman known to the Internet as Nitrogen has put together a type of Kinect do-it-yourself ...

Using Kinect to detect where you are in a room so that your home automation can turn off the lights in the parts where you are not makes a lot of sense. Regular motion cameras can do this now, but ...

When you have a product like Kinect, so closely associated with gaming, how do you convince everybody else that they should be installing a motion-tracking camera in the home? Microsoft is looking to ...

Microsoft has acquired MetricsHub, a startup company that monitors and automates resource allocation for Azure, Microsoft’s cloud computing platform. “MetricsHub will now offer all Windows Azure ...

If I had half the brain power that it took to hack my Xbox 360’s Kinect camera into a home automation system, you can bet sure money that I’d be doing backflips down the streets, bragging to anyone I ...

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