Anith Gopal

By Michelle Benedict                                                                             It’s amazing what a second pair of electronic eyes can do.  Besides selling 8 Million units in the first 60 days, the Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360 has more of an altruistic feel than traditional gaming systems.  Perhaps it’s because all you need to be able to play is the ability to move your body and the system literally plays off you. It’s for this simplicity of game play, but complex design to mirror the player that the Kinect for Xbox 360 is already being used as a seeing aid, a rehabilitation device, a surgeon’s assistant and a developmental tool.  Here are a few of our favorite stories emerging about how Kinect users are making medical breakthroughs with this Microsoft technology.   Kinect to help the blind ‘see’ in augmented reality (Please visit the site to view this video) Designed by graduate students at the Universität Konstanz in Germany, this seeing-eye Kinect has been dubbed the NAVI, or Navigational Aids for the Visually Impaired.

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Kinect for Mankind