There’s money to be made in the privacy business, and the latest example is a $ 20 privacy cover on an Xbox One Kinect TV mount from a company called PDP. Okay, so it’s mainly a TV mount with a removable privacy cover tossed in to protect “your privacy by blocking both the RGB and IR cameras.”
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Mike Elgan / Computerworld:
Kinect: Microsoft’s accidental success story — What happens when Microsoft applies a Google-like model to an Apple-like gadget? We’re going to find out. — Computerworld – Microsoft introduced a peripheral device for gaming in November called Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360.
Steve Clayton / TechNet Blogs:
Kinect for Windows SDK to Arrive Spring 2011 — Every year about this time, Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer, holds an intimate gathering to discuss the company’s vision for the future: just Craig, a handful of Microsoft thinkers and select media convening …
Matt Cutts / Gadgets, Google, and SEO:
Open Kinect Contest: $2000 in prizes — I’m starting a contest for people that do cool things with a Kinect. See the details below. — Before I joined Google, I was a grad student interested in topics like computer vision, motion self-tracking, laser scanners-basically any neat or unusual sensing device.