NEW iMACS LOCK OWNERS INTO APPLE'S HARDWARE EVEN MORE

Letting Apple control most facets of your computing experience is just a fact of life for the Mac faithful, but the company may have gone too far for some with the most recent iMac refresh. Want to swap out that hard drive for a bigger one or replace a dead disk? You've got no option but to go straight to Apple thanks to a new proprietary cable and special firmware. The standard 4-pin SATA connector has been replaced with a 7-pin configuration that keeps you from hooking up just any old hard drive, and without that magical firmware the iMac won't even boot.

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]

US AIR FORCE LOOKING AT UNMANNED 6TH GENERATION FIGHTER

The US Air Force is looking for a replacement to the recently released F-22 Raptor. According to the RFP, the fighter must be in service by 2030 and be able to be deployed into combat unmanned and remotely controlled.

No companies except Boeing—see the image below—have presented models of these theoretical 6th Generation fighters yet. [Gizmodo]