Typically speaking, if you’re waving your hands at your TV screen then you’re just watching another sports match with disgust and anger. TheKinectchanged all of that, and today changes the way that you’ll navigate yourNetflixviaXbox. FromMajor Nelson: The next time you start up Netflix, you’ll be prompted to accept the update which introduces Kinect support for Netflix. That means controller-free navigation of thousands of movies and TV show, allowing you to use just the sound of your voice or wave of your hand to control your favorite Netflix content....

Microsoft’s Kinect is a smash hit in both the consumer and hacker worlds, but does it have a shot to make asplash in the realm of medicine? Before you jump to the wrong conclusion, the Kinect is not being tested as a tool that doctors could interact with to execute any part of the actual surgery, meaning that no scalpels will be remotely driven. Instead it is being thought of as a fancy remote that a doctor could use in a surgical environment to interface with images needed for the operation....

A few weeks agowe told youabout a company called i.materialise that was doing some pretty amazing stuff with 3D printing. We hadn’t, until then, seen any company doing 3D with much more than ABS plastic or some other polymer. i.materialise was going a step further, though, and creating objects out of titanium powder. The team has been scouring the world to find some great new things that can be done with 3D printing and what they’ve found is pretty incredible....

The way developers are hacking Microsoft’s Kinect motion controller to lead it into all sorts of exciting new directions continues to impress. While some areusing it as a musical instrument controller, others have taken it into the world of dance. This impressive video was sent through to us from Singapore. Edwin Toh, a developer at Kinetic Singapore, expains that it was created as a marketing stunt for drinks brand F&N. “Dancers are transformed into colourful bubbles which react and replicate the dancers’ moves,” he says....

If you are a gamer, and there are a few of you out there, you might have heard of a little game called Half Life 2. However, you might not know that there is a wonderful derivative of the game that employs its graphics and physics engine calledGarry’s Mod, or GMod, that has made the game into a virtual sandbox for testing. Testing what? Anything. GMod is a place where people can use the very advanced physics and graphics capabilities of Half Life 2 to build virtual environments and situations to their heart’s content....