ENIAC or Colossus was the first electronic, programmable computer

@Nethlem: Like I said, it would require some clever post

@LeanderJaffe: Yes. With some clever post-processing you could produce a stereoscopic image too, although with some errors if anything gets too close.

Uh, the British Navy didn't blame its GPS equipment, their GPS was working fine. It was the Iranians who caused that dispute, and I don't recall Google Maps being involved in that in the slightest... so the last paragraph of this post seems utter gibberish.

@Neimo: Huh! I hadn't heard that. Good to know.

@TVs_Frank: Oh god, a console fanboi. Just what we need more of here.

@JAlexoid: Where? I've never seen a working system outside of academia.

I want Kinect for Windows 8. I want minority report on my computer. Hell, Microsoft, it was your idea in the first place. Now make it happen in real life. Chop chop.

@TVs_Frank: Go to your room and come back once you understand why EyeToy was not a significant advance, and why Kinect is. Hint: lookup full body recognition.

@spyderr0de0: A zombie's life is not as glamorous as it first seems.

@spyderr0de0: That would be better if zombies aren't allowed guns and have to physically tag the others.

@It's Meme Mario: Burn the witch!

I wouldn't say that. Lab life is 99% humdrum, 1% awesome and 100% underpaid.

@Andrew Scales: Heat is an issue be a problem for far-IR cameras that are used in heat sensing, and even in mid-IR. But near-IR is basically just red light that's a little too red for the human eye to see. An object has to be around 500C (almost visibly glowing) before temperature becomes a problem in the sense…

@rebanehv: Kinect isn't quite as impressive as I'd hoped, but fuck, it's still the most innovative consumer product I've seen in twenty years.

@CaptainJack: Near IR, not far IR. Heat doesn't become a problem for near IR until objects hit around 500C, at which point you have much greater problems.

@pixelsnader: Because Kinect's depth measurement is based on time-of-flight measurements (similar to lidar), not a stereoscopic estimate.

@Maxximtl: Sure it is. You just make it into small fibers and pack them into your walls. I keed.

@lostarchitect: The green way of dealing with it is to not have it in the first place.

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