Kinect Robot

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I bet Microsoft had no idea what they were letting out of the bag with this one.

This is why patents should be abolished… innovations that launch 1000 ships. Not saying that this is one, yet… but… you get the idea.

Everything builds from everything else. That’s part of the reason every second thing on TED seems to go nowhere… why 1/2 the things on this blog seem to go nowhere. Because the technology is patented. Whenever I see the words “patented”, I immediately think “oh, well that’s dead then”.

Fuck patents.