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Kinect already hacked?

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
November 8, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 21:27
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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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