Guinness World Records has officially declared Microsoft’s Kinect motion gaming controller for Xbox 360 as the Fastest-Selling Consumer Electronics Device. The revolutionary accessory sold around 133,000 units per day for a total of 8 million units in its first 60 days on sale from 4 November 2010 to 3 January 2011. These sales figures outstrip both the iPhone and the iPad for the equivalent periods after launch.  Read more...

Permalink: Guinness World Records: Microsoft Kinect Is The World’s Fastest Selling Consumer Electronics Device!

Hours after Microsoft’s revolutionary Kinect went on sale, open-source drivers were written to allow the use of the Kinect on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. Since then, many Kinect "hacks" have been released, which have brought about many cool uses for the Kinect that it was never intended for. In fact, Microsoft has been excited about the Kinect hacks, and is bringing the Kinect to Windows. We’ve shown you a cool puppet trick using the Kinect, and a combination of the Kinect and iPad. Here are a few videos of the Kinect being used to control robotic arms:  Read more...

Permalink: Check Out These Kinect Controlled Robots!

Microsoft has posted new job openings for hardware engineers ranging from graphics to audio/video hardware for Xbox. The interesting bit from these job postings is that the team at Microsoft’s Mountain View research campus is looking for defining and delivering next generation console architectures for which the new job postings are up. It looks like Microsoft is hiring new talent for their next generation Xbox. Xbox 720 perhaps?  Read more...

Permalink: Microsoft Hiring Hardware Engineers for Next Xbox ?

WOW! This might be offensive to some Xbox 360 lovers but frankly speaking, it didn’t offend me at all coz I already have a RRoD 360 laying around the corner for quite some time now. It would be even better if I had a couple of such dead Xbox 360’s but those who do (and who also own a PlayStation 3 system), will be delighted to check out this mod. Ebil from Australia, has beautiful turned his dead xbox 360 shells into a couple of awesome looking PS3 / PS2 + PC + Xbox arcade sticks.  Read more...

Permalink: RRoD Xbox 360 Modded Into Awesome PlayStation 3 Arcade Controllers [PICTURES]

Microsoft advertisement has taken a U-turn ever since Windows 7 launched. There ads have meaning now and actually make sense to the average consumer. They show off why you should use the product and what its benefits are. The latest round of commercials from Microsoft does just that; show off the wonderful features of digitally connected devices and services in Microsoft’s ecosystem.  Read more...

Permalink: Microsoft’s New Commercials Promote Windows Phone 7 and Windows Live Services

So you think you can dance? Wanna share your dance moves with the world? No problem! In fact, you can actually do it right from your living room. All you need is an Xbox 360 gaming console with Kinect™ motion senor and you can join the “Dance Central Dance Battle” social media challenge, presented by Brickfish.com. All you need to do is download the sample music from here, and create a dance video of you and your friends with Kinect™ sensor using to Dance Central for Xbox 360. SImply upload that video with a brief description why you are excited to get Xbox Dance Central and why your video is the best! Finalists will get exciting prizes such as an Xbox 360 250 GB Console with Kinect or a Samsung 55″ Class LED-LCD 1080p HDTV.  Read more...

Permalink: Xbox 360 “Dance Central Dance Battle” Challenge, Join Now For FREE & Win Exciting Prizes!

After all the Kinect hacks we’ve been posting here on iTD, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that Kinect support for PCs is on the cards.  The confirmation came through BBC’s show Click Online, when Ballmer told them:  Read more...

Permalink: Kinect Support for Windows PC planned says Ballmer

Microsoft Studios have announced the launch of an Avatar Kinect for coming Spring. In regards to what this new add-on exactly is, the Avatar Kinect is supposed to be a feature that allows communications between players relative to a virtual home-like setting. Although one may feel that this should have been announced together with the announcement of the Xbox 360 kinect, but oh well, it was not to be.  You may also argue that this is a complete PlayStation 3 Home knock-off, but then again you need to live with it; it might just turn out to be something better, who knows.  Read more...

Permalink: Avatar Kinect connects in Spring (Video)

During his announcement at the Consumer Electronics Show, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced that a total of 8 million Kinect devices had been sold following the first 60 days of its launch. The CEO added that over 50 million Xbox 360 units had also been sold till date and that such milestones will keep coming. Microsoft is also expected to release a Kinect-enabled ESPN football rivalry game soon. This particular is said to have been designed in such a way that players would be able to stay in touch with friends and see whose on top in the overall player rankings.  Read more...

Permalink: Microsoft Kinect hits 8 million shipment sales

Yes, it’s true. We had previously covered how Kinect hacks had paved way for RTS interface concept and also how Kinect could augment images of the user. This time round, we show you how Kinect usage has become even more practical with the allowance of home grown motion capture.  Motion capture is not easy business by any means – it involves effort which is why most amateurs would avoid such a thing. One thing that really makes it a piece of cake is Microsoft’s Kinect. How? Well, through yet another Kinect hack, what else!  We have seen them before and we see another impressive effort right here.  Read more...

Permalink: From a Motion-Sensing Kinect to a Motion Capturing Kinect device [Kinect Hack Video]