Kinect keeps your body-mounted projector steady

Are you the kind of person who likes to give your colleagues (or any friends you may have left) a PowerPoint presentation at the drop of a hat? If so, you could be a prime customer for the Kinect-powered wearable projectorthat’s being developed by Sven Kratz and colleagues at the University of Munich in Germany.

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Kinect to watch your emotions and serve up ads

Online adverts are already tailored to your search and browsing history, but now Microsoft has plans to add emotions to the mix. In a recently revealed patent application the company suggests that using its Kinect sensor to analyze your face and body language for emotions could help companies better target their ads. Emotional analysis of

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Kinect system keeps track of household objects

FITTING your house with a network of Kinect sensors could mean never losing your wallet, TV remote or other small items again. “We want to make Google for your home,” says Shahriar Nirjon, a computer scientist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. To do this, Nirjon and colleague John Stankovic developed Kinsight, which records

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