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What crazy inventions from the future will Apple make with PrimeSense?

Nov 25, 2013
Apple has purchased a company that helped create Microsoft's Xbox Kinect.

Kinect is Xbox One's secret weapon

Nov 20, 2013
Microsoft's Kinect is big with non-gamers and could spur innovation.

Xbox's Orwellian patent, and when social media politics gets old

Nov 8, 2012
A new patent for Xbox Kinect might be trying to watch you for copyright owners, and users are getting tired of politics on social media, even though they're still posting about it.

Xbox adds new on-demand content

Dec 5, 2011
What on-demand video could mean the Xbox means for the future of TV and home entertainment.

For public good, not for profit.

iTV gesture enabled?

Nov 28, 2011
Prepare to gesticulate madly at your television. Hooray progress!

"Kinect is amazing and everyone loves it. Let's put ads all over it!" - Microsoft

Jun 21, 2011
Okay, that's a bit of a paraphrase. Today Microsoft will announce NUads (short for natural user-interface ads) for the Xbox Kinect system. It lets...

Xbox schedules event at the same time and people show up

Jun 7, 2011
Yeah, it was a real fun day to be following live blogs. Larissa and I were yelling back and forth. Must have really thrilled the Krista Tippett...