Each participant was told that he or she would compete against an unseen opponent in a 25-trial computer game in which the object was to be the first to respond to a visual cue on the computer screen.
Kinect for Windows is getting a big SDK update on March 18th to version 1.7 -- Redmond's calling it "our most significant update to the SDK since we released the first version" -- which includes the long awaited 3D object scanning application Kinect Fusion.
If the new object were a captured alien, it could give astronomers their first good look at an extra-solar planet, or a brown dwarf if that is what it turns out to be.
Kissinger's first-hand experiences of those pivotal moments during the Cold War make him an object of fascination for people across the political spectrum.
The case went all the way to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York -- and Kieselstein-Cord won, becoming the first designer to win the right to copyright a functional object as art.