Microsoft has opened up access to some of the code for its Kinect for Windows motion-sensing device.

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You've heard of Kinect, the Microsoft motion-sensing device that enhanced the Xbox.

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That led the relay, a kind of sensing device, to incorrectly conclude there was an electrical problem and tell a nearby electrical switch to isolate the perceived problem, reducing the flow of power to the Superdome during the game's third quarter.

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At a meeting in September the commissioners voted unanimously to ditch the spectrum-sensing requirement and let device-makers rely solely on interrogating online databases to find vacant channels.

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An algorithm may then be used to switch the device to a touch sensing mode that increases the number of touch sensing cycles in a given period.

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Namely, the console will ship with a new version of Microsoft's motion-sensing camera controller, Kinect, and that the device, "must be plugged in and calibrated for the console to even function, " the piece says.

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Once docked, the robot gains the sensing and musical generation capabilities of the user's mobile device.

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By sensing the amount of dynamic acceleration, it can calculate the direction the device is moving.

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