Siri, Your Personal TV Remote Control

Siri, iPhone 4S’ trusted personal assistant, can now be used to do numerous everyday tasks, thanks to hackers, who have incorporated the device’s compatibility to different gadgets and found ways to make life easier. It can basically do anything you can imagine, well except for cooking.

Just when you think that Siri can just do amazing stuff like changing the temperature in your house and allowing car owners to utilize your car’s bluetooth integration, a Vimeo user: toddtreece, has taken laziness and ingenuity to a whole new level by taking command of his beloved television set.

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Kinect Developer Johnny Chung Lee Leaves Microsoft for Google

After years of spending his time in developing the Kinect, Microsoft’s Johnny Chung Lee has now decided to revert his talents to search engine giant Google. Mr.Lee didn’t actually say what will be his position in Google but we do know that he’ll be joining a special projects team and he’ll be working as Rapid Evaluator.

As of the moment, Johnny’s reason for his sudden transfer to Google is still unknown. Read his statement after the break.

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Microsoft Kinect — Hacked and Cracked

Sorry Microsoft, your Kinect has been opened already. A motion sensing camera is ready for battle and displays a real time accelerometer data on a hacker’s PC. The NUI group member apparently had the glory which was not actually his first stardom. He was actually the one who hacked PlayStation Eye in 2008. The $2,000 prize Adafruit is offering isn’t enough. He aims a bigger lot and hopes to integrate in into the company’s commercial visualization CL Studio Live.

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