Stuff Gadgets of the year.....

[daroamer]

Wagram said:

kowenicki said:

pezus said:

kowenicki said:

Innovation fo the year goes to:

The Stuff Gadget Awards 2010! YESTERDAY

 

 

Xbox Kinect
Microsoft's console gets controller-free, motion-sensitive gaming. Smells like a revolution to us, and it obviously did to you too.

Highly commended:
- Dell Adamo XPS
- Nintendo 3DS
- Apple iPad
- YikeBike
- Google Goggles
- Sky 3D
- Dyson Air Multiplier

 

Innovation of the year

As voted by Stuff readers, in association with Duracell

Smells like the Eyetoy to me :P

weak.

I don't see why you think it's weak. It essentially is an advanced EyeToy, so there is nothing revolutionary here. Just like the PS Move is an advanced WiiMote so I don't think that should be on there either (even though it isn't).

No it isn't.

The similarity is that people moved their bodies to make stuff happen on screen.  How it accomplishes this and the expericence the user gets is quite different.

Kinect has an RGB camera yes, but the depth sensing, skeletal tracking, motion capture and voice recognition stuff built in to Kinect is stuff that's not even hinted at in Eyetoy.

Just the fact that you can have 2 people in a room talking and Kinect can tell who is talking and filter out all the other sound to record them is very advanced stuff.  You need to separate the technology that accomplishes stuff like this from something that just has a microphone.