KINECT HACK ALLOWS WEB BROWSER AND WINDOWS 7 CONTROL BY GESTURES

The hacks for Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kinect just keep getting better. MIT's Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group has hacked the Kinect to allow users to control web browsers and Windows 7 using only gestures.

The MIT group used DepthJS, a system that makes Javascript talk to Microsoft's Kinect in order to navigate web pages, among other things. It's not that making wild, arm-waving gestures is the best way to navigate a web site, it's just a demonstration that you can and advances the technology. Hopefully the group, or other hackers, can take this advance and evolving it into a multitouch remote control plugin for our home theater PCs. [Engadget]