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Bot Vid: Robo Cheetah Boston Dynamics is behind many of the most astonishing robot advances at the moment, and its latest tech is splashed all over the web this week beacuse it's extra impressive: The robotics firm has pushed its cheetah-like robot quadruped up to a mind-boggling 18 miles an hour, a record for legged bots. It's a DARPA-funded project, like many BD efforts, to improve mobility and speed of ground robots for tasks like mine and IED detection.

Xbox Kinect TV plans to bring interactive, immersive experiences to live action television and children's books with the help of National Geographic and Sesame Street's Workshop. Xbox is unveiling a sharp idea for the next generation of television: interactive, live-action content, produced in partnership Sesame Workshop and National Geographic

A new augmented reality shopping platform for Xbox Kinect will allow users to try on clothes in true 3-D, share photos with friends, and store wish-listed items on smartphones for shopping on-the-go. Virtual reality shopping just got a lot more real--and could soon become a lot more mainstream.

Ever want to be a model? Then you'll love this new Kinect hack that combines 3-D imaging and a RepRap machine to turn you into...a model! It's clever, and hints at two powerful futures for tech

Kinect hacks are often impressive, revealing how powerful the Microsoft device actually is. A new one that combines 3-D modelling, data gloves, and gesture control, hints at how you may control your PC in the near future. Hacker Sebastian was trying to explore how a functional man-machine interface could be made with Kinect--a more "scientific" kind of hack than some of the fun and arty ones we've seen, and mirroring all sorts of million-dollar research that companies like Microsoft are themselves exploring (because more natural ways of interacting with PCs are definitely on the horizon)