Hacked Kinect Can Navigate Through Windows 7

So the Kinect has been out for almost three weeks now, which apparently is more than enough time for interested parties to take apart Microsoft’s latest gaming concoction, peer into its guts, and see how it all works and comes together. And from there they’ve been able to come up with some pretty creative and practical utilizations of the camera technology, one namely is the ability to navigate through Windows 7 using nothing but gestures — Videos after the break!

Brandon Davenport Nov 22, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Gaming, Geek Culture, Humor, Videos

Angry Birds battle it out in a Peace Treaty with the Pigs - Video

At Nov 22, 2010

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Angry Birds battle it out in a Peace Treaty with the Pigs - Video

In this glorious 2 and a half minute short, the Angry Birds battle it out in a Peace Treaty with the Pigs. Created by Erez Nehederet (“Wonderful Country”), a very popular sketch comedy show in Israel, the video has become a sensation with US audiences, and as you can see above, has been translated to English — Make sure to stick around till the very end!

T3ch H3lp for iPad Launching Late this Month

We heard you on Twitter, and we’re going to deliver. T3ch H3lp for iPad has been in development for a few months, and finally we’ve reached a closed (not open to the public) Beta that, even at this stage, blows our minds. We can’t give away too many details, but all you really need to know is it’s going to be lighter, faster and better looking that you’d expect — and even though it’s a full blown app, there’s no download required.

Thanks for waiting! — The iPhone version is currently in development.

Some iOS users will get MobileMe for Free - Some crazy speculations

MobileMe overall is a great service… it’s a very expensive service, but it’s really good. For years, people have been paying $99/year for MobileMe which includes things like Mail, Cloud Storage and Photo sharing — but recently, a piece of code found in the iOS 4.2.1 GM seeded to developers last week showed that Apple is planning to create a free tier of MobileMe.

Brandon Davenport Nov 21, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Humor, Internet, Videos

Off Topic - Guy in spandex frog suit going crazy on "France Has Got Talent"

At Nov 21, 2010

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Off Topic - Guy in spandex frog suit going crazy on "France Has Got Talent"

It’s Sunday, and we’d figure you’d like waking up to nothing other than a crazy guy in a uni-spandex frog suit (complete with flippers) dancing to the fine accompaniment of “Move it” while bending and flexing his body in a seemingly un-healthy/impossible manner. The tech news will commence once again in a short while…

Was Internet Explorer 9 cheating the Benchmarks? - RoundUp

When you read about Internet Explorer 9 “crushing the competition” with it’s un-believable benchmarking scores, and mind blowing optimizations — you start to wonder how Microsoft managed to squeak this new version out into the public in a short amount of time. Surley they would need to spend quite a while re-doing the IE backbone, and stripping down the engine that loads webpages  — so that’s why a Mozilla engineer dug into the guts of IE 9 and discovered that Microsoft was in-fact “cheating” the SunSpider benchmark.