Bearded, clad in a hoodie, and with a mouthful of swear words, hacker Kyle Machulis took the stage last month at San Francisco music joint Rickshaw Stop. He was there to deliver a Nerd Night talk about his latest love: Microsoft's Kinect, a gesture-and-voice-rec-ognition accessory for the Xbox gaming console that lets people play video games without having to hold a controller. "This thing costs $150 and is sold at GameStop," Machulis told the crowd. "Oh, s-t! We live in the future!" Machulis serves as one of the leaders of the Open Kinect project, an ad hoc effort backed by thousands of hackers and DIY. enthusiasts.
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