Fully Charged: Samsung’s amazingly tiny portable SSD, alliance formed to set 4K standards, and Microsoft hasn’t given up on Kinect yet
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Microsoft’s RoomAlive project turns your entire living room into a video game
Who doesn’t want giant virtual spiders crawling around their fireplace?
Fully Charged: The absurd augmented reality hat, new Dance Central details, and BBC Sport gets Chromecast support
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Kinect for Windows v2 now available for pre-order
Microsoft puts a price on the developer-friendly version of its Xbox One sensor
Latest Xbox One ad accidentally turning on viewers’ consoles
Microsoft learns the perils of voice-activated hardware when Xbox owners complain
Fully Charged: Wii and Nintendo DS online service shuttered, inside the Oculus Rift and Kinect holodeck, and the creep-thwarting expandable dress
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Fully Charged: The Amiga 500 lives again, MIT’s X-ray motion sensor and the goldilocks mug that can keep your coffee just right
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The ‘world-changing’ products that roundly failed to change the world
Kinect lets you look your Skype caller in the eye
Software prototype remaps and rotates your face to simulate a more natural conversation
Microsoft tells Stuff why the Kinect isn’t an evil telescreen
Why you should rip off those tinfoil hats and enjoy Microsoft’s next-gen super-cam
Kinect to serve up ads based on your emotions
Microsoft wants to sell you stuff based on your emotional state, using its Kinect sensor