Microsoft's $150 Xbox add-on, the Kinect, can use face-recognition technology to log you onto your Xbox Live account. But it's not trouble-free. To understand why, you need to know how it works.

The clip for Echo Lake's Young Silence could well be the first music video filmed with a Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect camera. Click here to see the Kinect creation. Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and ...

Playing catch with Elmo in Kinect Sesame Street TV from Microsoft Studios. This is better than regular television. But it’s very hard to beat the good old-fashioned real world. That was the conclusion ...

New Avatar Kinect software lets you video chat using your Xbox cartoon. It uses the Kinect sensor bar to track your facial movements -- read on for all the info. Luke Westaway Senior editor Luke ...

The launch of Microsoft’s Avatar Kinect yesterday has provided a new form of creative expression to Xbox 360 users — letting them put their Xbox Live avatars in virtual settings and interact with ...

Dan Nixon and Don Jones recently shot a video for the band Echo Lake, featuring its song Young Silence. The video itself it pretty cool, and seems to fit the song’s almost dream-like sound well. But ...

Microsoft announced a new option for advertisers at the Cannes International Advertising Festival this week. The Xbox Kinect gaming console is going to use voice and motion commands to let consumers ...

We have featured quite a few different Microsoft Kinect hacks here at Geeky Gadgets. The latest one is video conferencing using the Microsoft Kinect, and the results are pretty impressive, adding in a ...

Remember those 3D MagicEye calendars you’d stare at, convinced that if only you tried for 10 more minutes, you’d finally see what you were supposed to see? Canadian indie band Young Rival has released ...

Microsoft’s Kinect camera promised quite a bit when it was first introduced to Xbox 360 gamers around the world, but it didn’t really deliver. There were a few so-so games, but even when it became ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For all the successes we've seen in the world of games, the industry has experienced its share of failures. The Xbox Kinect was ...