Remember those tricksy seaside arcade machines with the claw? Well, the latest Kinect hack to pass over our desks reinvents the favourite of the Arctic Monkeys and the Toy Story aliens alike.
The creation from students at the Bartlett School of Architecture uses Kinect combined with Arduino and Processing components to mimic the movements of a user’s arm. It’s pretty ace and you can see it in action in the Kinect hack video after the break…
A NASA press conference at 11am PST on Thursday will reveal some seriously cool details in the quest to find alien life. NASA says the event is about “astrobiology [and] a finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life”. That has got us skywatchers at Electricpig pretty excited. If you can stay up late enough you can see the whole thing broadcast on NASA TV. In the meantime let us know: do you think there’s something out there or are we just a galactic fluke? Click the headline to head for the comments.
Out now | £free | NASA
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When will this expansion pack madness end? Following the strategy it has adopted with The Sims, Electronic Arts is to release its first expansion pack for Spore in November 18, according to a listing that was briefly placed on its own US download store (and following brief listings on US Amazon and other retailers).