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Our love of Minecraft is pretty well established (just check out our original Minecraft review) so a project to make creations from within the game real is right up our street. Created by Cody Sumter and Jason Boggess at the MIT Media Lab, Minecraft.Print uses the game as a 3D modelling tool.

Once they’ve created something impressive in Minecraft, they place obsidian, diamond, gold and iron blocks at each corner. Those markers allow the Minecraft.Print script to scan the map and produce file ready to be fed to a 3D printer like the Makerbot Thing-o-matic

Click through to see Minecraft models being turned into real world objects including a Portal companion cube!

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The Nintendo 3DS is selling like 3D-enabled hotcakes and the 3DS hacks are beginning to appear. At MIT, a giant Nintendo 3DS augmented reality card appeared in the main lobby…

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Here’s a Kinect hack that could seriously perk up boring work meetings. The Kinect conference system adds gesture controls to video conferencing and some other nifty features. When people taking part in a Kinect conference speak, the system can recognise who is talking and focus the camera on them while blurring the background.

It also adds context bubbles to show the speaker’s name, documents they’re shared and how long they’ve been speaking. Gesture controls include the ability to freeze frame yourself so you appear static while the rest of the image continues to move and a gesture to make yourself disappear for privacy. You can see Kinect conference in action after the break…

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Enjoying Kinect hacks has become one of our favourite pastimes but the latest one means you can actually make your own Kinect games for PC, Mac and Kinux…

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Another Kinect hack! And once again our mind is blown. The cool kids at the MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group (what a badass thing to put on a business card) have created a system that allows Kinect to become a Minority Report-style tool for web browsing. It can’t be long before we see an arm-waving plugin for the Boxee Box or Apple TV can it? Hurrah! Hit the jump for the video of the Kinect hack in action…

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