Light aircraft often use a heading indicator as a way to know where they’re going. Retired instrumentation engineer [Don Welch] recreated a heading indicator of his own, using cheap ...

You might not have heard of the Nex Playground, but it’s a tiny gaming system built entirely around Kinect-like games. With its camera and computer vision processing, the $249 Nex Playground can track ...

This all-purpose presence sensor is a master at monitoring indoor activity and linking it to smart home features you already use. Tyler has worked on, lived with and tested all types of smart home and ...

The Nex Playground is on track to move 600,000 consoles, quadrupling last year’s sales. The Nex Playground is on track to move 600,000 consoles, quadrupling last year’s sales. is the Verge’s weekend ...

A roundtable featured more than 30 leaders in the sensor technology and advanced materials sectors to discuss ecosystem development (The Chamber of Business & Industry of Centre County/LinkedIn) For ...

Being a Star Wars fan has always been a roller-coaster ride, with stratospheric highs and Glup Shitto lows. And then there’s Kinect Star Wars. In April 2012, just months before Disney announced plans ...

The Xbox Kinect has turned 15, and we’re all grateful the industry got over its obsession with whatever Nintendo was up to at the time. Announced in 2009 as Project Natal, with hindsight being 20:20, ...

Of all major game publishers, Nintendo is the one most associated with bizarre controls. From the Virtual Boy to the Wiimote, Nintendo's history is studded with unorthodox new ways to play games — ...

Anyone remember Xbox Kinect? It was this strange-looking motion-sensing peripheral for the Xbox 360, and later Xbox One, which used a camera to track the gamer's movements. First unveiled at E3 2009 ...

Vapourware can end up being the stuff of legend, like Rockstar's Agent, Star Wars 1313, or StarCraft: Ghost. Without ever seeing the light of day, these games never risked the possibility of being ...

AI is still a contentious topic, but it's here to stay. I use it most days, and not just because Microsoft is doing its best to stuff it inside every product it makes. It has its uses, and since the ...

Amanda Blum is a freelancer who writes about smart home technology, gardening, and food preservation. Previously, Amanda has worked as a technology strategist specializing in problem solving and ...