The Kinect tagline “You are the controller,” just took another turn for the different when a homebrew use of the device showed how the technology could recognize buttons drawn onto a piece of paper.

The march of mod progress has steadily delivered many cool things during the Kinect’s short lifespan to date. We can add another breakthrough: The ability to recognize hand-drawn buttons. This hack, ...

Two more crazy Kinect hacks have been captured on video, making a nice thematic pairing. First, Razorfish's DaVinci software has been ported to Kinect, allowing users to draw onscreen by making ...

When Oliver Kreylos, a computer scientist, heard about the capabilities of Microsoft’s new Kinect gaming device, he couldn’t wait to get his hands on it. “I dropped everything, rode my bike to the ...