People over at MIT have developed a piece of open-source software that lets you drag files from your phone to your computer or tablet or whatever with a swipe of a finger. It’s simple and clever and looks like the future – and it works. They’re calling it Swÿp. Take a look at the demo after the jump.
Microsoft wants you to notice them too – which is why they’ve rolled out a Ford Mustang fitted with Kinect sensors, two Windows 8 tablets, projection screens, and a couple of other neat toys as a proof-of concept to inspire developers to build applications and automotive technologies with Microsoft in mind.
I guess this is the future’s MacBook photobooth? Using a 3-D printer and a Microsoft Kinect, folks can get small, low-resolution 3-D sculptures of themselves printed, as displayed at the snappily titled Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction Conference last week.
So we’ve had the the posthumous ‘behind the scenes’ documentary and album, but now it’s time for the video game. And I’m not talking about the arcade game you used to play as a kid. This time you’re gonna have the chance to actually dance alongside everybody’s favourite dead pop star
So some of you may have tried out the Kinect for the Xbox 360. It’s pretty damn awesome, if you don’t mind flailing around like a lunatic in front of the TV. But sometimes the Kinect can go horribly wrong, especially when your kids get in the way…