A hacker says he can control Microsoft's Kinect, the just-released motion-tracking game device for the Xbox 360, with a Windows PC.
The feat, by a member of the Natural User Interface Group, comes just days after Adafruit Industries offered a $2,000 reward to the first person who published open-source drivers for the Kinect. Microsoft can't be too thrilled, since they spent years working on making it secure - and if it happened so soon after a paltry reward it may mean an Xbox 360 isn't needed to use it at all.
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