The Xbox 360 motion sensor suite will be heading into space, probably later this year, as part of the semiautonomous cube satellite program STRAND. It'll be used as a low-cost 3D imager for navigation and docking ( Read more... )

So today is Canada Day, celebrating the 144th anniversary of our Confederation. It's a nice day; sunny, clear, neither humid nor dry, neither hot nor cool, not particularly windy. I'm just back in from lashing a small Canadian flag to my balcony rail in likely violation of some rule but whatever. (And it'll be down tomorrow, in any case ( Read more... )

So I've got my new Xbox Slim running, and my new Kinect sensor calibrated. The thing is about a third of the way through transfering the contents of my old hard drive to the new one. And I'm breathing a sigh of relief ( Read more... )

Kinect, the Xbox 360 motion control system, came out on November 3. It's receiving mixed- to positive reviews. I'm not yet convinced I'll get one, but there's one ugly rumour about it I want to absolutely crush.

Gamespot's blog posted that Kinect has trouble using facial recognition with black people.

Consumer Reports tested that, and says ( Read more... )