What Makes the XBox Kinect Tick?

It is very amazing how Microsoft's XBox Kinect senses a gamer's movements. So amazing that players want to check out what's inside the device. But worry no more, because iFixit got it all covered.
The much-anticipated XBox Kinect was launched yesterday. The $150 gesture-based device is filled with cameras and sensors that detect the 3-D movement with surprising accuracy. But what makes the XBox Kinect really tick? What’s behind its every motion-sensing technology?
After iFixit torn the XBox Kinect apart, the guts of the device was revealed and the highlights were listed after the skip.
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