Use Kinect to teach anatomy? It's a 'Mirracle'! Kinect hacks have been used for many a grand feat, from a tool that helps the blind navigate more easily to hands-free questing in World of Warcraft and virtual cat brushing.
So why not integrate the powers of Microsoft Kinect with a mirror to teach such subjects as basic anatomy? For the past year, a team out of the Technical University of Munich in Germany has been working on just that. Kinect. Kinect-dev. Kinect. Kinect SDK. Kinect. Kinect-based mood analysis could bolster Microsoft's advertising efforts. Kinect-based mood analysis could bolster Microsoft's advertising efforts. Secret Windows 8 Weapon: Kinect Built Into Your Laptop. The Windows release of Kinect is coming up in a couple days, but for most people that won’t be a major event: the Kinect they have is sitting on their TV or in a drawer, waiting to be taken out for an impromptu Dance Central 2 party.
Of the 10 million Kinects out there, the only ones connected to computers are the ones being fiddled with by the various hackers and students making science projects out the things. But according to the Daily, Microsoft is hoping to remedy this particular situation by building Kinect sensors right into your laptops. TechCrunch alum Matt Hickey got to handle a pair of prototypes, which were confirmed to be official, not just one of the many experiments that hide within Microsoft’s various lairs. Unfortunately the laptops were not ready for their debut and no pictures seem to have been permitted. TheTechJournal.com.