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=The Next Big Thing=

The Kinect is a very intriguing one with more promise than may seem immediately apperent. There was a rush to create working drivers for hackers and third-parties upon the hardware's release, and now that those drivers are freely available, the flood of third-party applications has begun. Ars spoke to Florian Echtler, who created a program that allow you to resize and manipulate images. While the application is still in its early phases, Echtler claims that working with the hardware is easier than you'd expect. We're seeing increasingly impressive uses for the hardware, including the ability to move a live image in 3D space, and as the open source community explores what the hardware can do it's only going to get better. Microsoft may not approve of non-authorized uses of the Kinect, but the genie is already out of the bottle. This is just the beginning. media type="gabbly" key="http%3A%2F%2Fiadtmultimedia.wikispaces.com%2FJamesWiki" width="1280" height="258"