May, 2011

It’s been a couple of weeks since the last Kinect hack that caught our eye but this one is a doozy. Tom Makin has put together an ace Kinect juggling hack that uses the camera to watch for your hands disappearing behind you back and then generates a glowing ball when they return to the camera’s field of vision.

The virtual balls in the Kinect hack can be thrown away or juggled as you can see after the break. Makin’s hack is based on another cool Kinect hack by Hogehoge335 which saw him replicating the Kamehameha attack from Dragonball Z. You can also see that Kinect hack after the jump…

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Your car dashboard probably doesn’t look much different to how it would’ve 20 years ago – a radio, a speedometer and a clock all nestled together – but Pioneer wants to change that. It’s presented a new augmented reality dashboard that puts a camera on the front of your car and scans the view to identify cars, traffic lights and local shops…

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Rumours that Apple is in talks with voice recognition company Nuance have been ramping up recently. Now, inevitably, those whispers are being tied in with Apple’s massive data centre in North Carolina – the one we talked about in our iPod Cloud feature – and Siri, the artificial intelligence software makers Apple snapped up last year…

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Last year, we broke the news that the low price Advent Vega tablet was due an Android 3.0 Honeycomb update. While that’s yet to materialise officially, a bunch of enterprising hackers have gone ahead and shoehorned the tablet optimised operating system on to the little slate that could anyway. Read on to see it in action!

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If you’ve got an Xbox 360, you’re probably getting a little bored with gloating about the PlayStation Network hack by now, right? You’re not? OK but we’ve got something else for you to focus on. Details on this year’s Spring Xbox 360 software update!

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Google uses Android as a “club” to make phone makers do what it wants. That claim comes from…an email sent by Dan Morrill, Google’s open source and compatibiliy manager, back in August 2010.

The correspondence, revealed as part of a lawsuit by Skyhook against Google, says phone makers are aware that Google “is using compatability as a club to make them do things we want”.

That offhand comment ties closely into Skyhook’s claim that Google put pressure on Motorola to ditch its method for providing location services using WiFi and cell tower signal data on pain of Google’s wrath and a loss of crucial Android features…

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 Samsung Galaxy S 2, Nokia Windows Phone, HTC Puccini: US UpdateThe world of tech never sleeps and we’re on hand 24/7, bringing you the latest and greatest the wonderful world of gadgets has to offer. In today’s US Update we kick off the show with TalkTalk’s new HomeSafe web filter, take a look at Galaxy S 2 international pre-orders and even spy HTC’s upcoming 10-inch tablet, the Puccini.

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call of duty profits help activision blow off the chartIt seems as though Activision is minting its own money with each quarterly report recording unprecedented profit levels. The game studio’s first quarter profits sounded to the tune of $503m, up from $381m during the same period last year. Even sales were up from $1.3b to $1.4b, leading us to ask — can anything stop Activision’s money train?

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