Chris Vik, an Australian composer, hacked Microsoft's motion-sensitive Kinect camera to play the historic, 32-foot-tall Melbourne Town Hall organ. The Atlantic: How did you get into working at this ...

Once again, leave it to hackers to turn something trivial and fun into something useful. A group of French hackers have repurposed a Kinect to become, as they call it, “a gesture recognition system” – ...

So what does Microsoft’s new Kinect motion-control camera really do as it’s capturing your movements? One enterprising individual turned to the magic of night vision optics to find out. The result ...