Abstract :
It´s a Tuesday night in Philadelphia-hacker time. A small group of do-it-yourself engineers and hipster geeks gather in a cluttered space downtown. One holds a Kinect, the motion-sensing controller for Microsoft´s Xbox 360 system. But he´s not playing a video game. He´s about to take the Kinect apart to see if he can get it to work with a shoot-´em-up space game for which it wasn´t intended.