If you have a Microsoft Kinect and a good idea for a new way to use it, you might be able to turn it into a business. Microsoft has announced a program that will help ten people launch businesses around products for Kinect, the controller that senses motion and voice. READ MORE
Microsoft just announced it will open up the use of its Kinect software development kit (SDK) for commercial applications, reports WinRumors. READ MORE
While we’ve been hearing a lot about smartphones that can use Near Field Communications (NFC) to pay for things so you don’t have to pull out cash or a credit card, we haven’t seen much of it in action–until now. READ MORE
If you want stock tips with your morning shave or conflict-zone reporting with your Colgate, the New York Times Co.’s R&D Lab may have just the thing. The Lab has developed a device that looks like a bathroom mirror and that, it seems, is supposed to offer an attractive way to get your news while trimming your nose hairs. READ MORE
Zugara, a developer of online augmented reality software, has partnered with online clothing retailer Banana Flame in the latest e-commerce attempt to make online shopping seem like shopping in a store. With the help of a webcam, Zugara’s software creates a visual simulation of what the clothes may look like on a customer. READ MORE
How do rumors get started? Well, Timex Social Club might have had some suspicions, but we’re pretty sure that jealousy was not a factor in the news that Microsoft will likely release two new Kinect titles: Fruit Ninja and Disneyland Adventures, the latter the result of a rumored (there’s that word again) partnership between Microsoft and Disney. What, you were expecting Dr. Evil? READ MORE
It was only a few years ago that “Microsoft” and “games” seemed the unlikeliest of pairings. The OS provider and software giant was firmly entrenched in the business space. Yet the terms now happily co-exist in the company’s quarterly report. And they could get much cozier, says Erik Sherman on bNet. READ MORE
