Hacking

A German company has developed a concept that would use the Kinect sensor to help customers while shopping at their local grocery store delis and bakeries.

Microsoft has announced that they will be releasing a Software Development Kit in the Spring that will allow people to develop programs for their Kinect sensor.

The United States Department of Defense has pledged $500 Million to research new ways to defend themselves from cyber attacks.

You might think that genetic engineering is an incredibly complex, expensive, and high-tech process. And that’s where you’d be wrong.

The Internet doesn't want you to think about it too much, but you never really know what you're looking for. Evoking the presence of 17th-century savant John Dee, Scryberspace cracks open the search experience.

You bought it? You own it; don't let esoteric screwheads take it away from you. Video after the jump.

Tearing down tens of thousands of horoscopes, David McCandless seeks the heart of the Zodiac not in the stars, but in the word-clouds.

Reverse the polarity on sneaker piracy and globalization, and you get something like Chinese sneakers hacked into hover shoes. Video after the jump.

Video projection extends its pseudopods into the real world in the inspired work of the "anti-VJ" Aalto; video after the jump.

To demo their Javascript framework for the Kinect, this MIT Media Lab team made a gestural web browser interface. Insert gratuitous tech-blogger Minority-Report rave here.