According to a rumor, the next Xbox’s controller may feature the ability to detect a “squeeze” from the user as input, possibly for ID’ing the player. Hey, it’s bound to work better than the Kinect’s Facial Recognition….

Here’s Hoping The Next Xbox Really Does Feature Squeeze-Controls [Durango]Kotaku

A report over at Engadget shows a patent filed by Microsoft for a device that uses “personalization using a hand-pressure signature.” The image in their patent filing is a chunky, lovable Xbox 360 controller that, going by the title, will be able to detect your identity based on your hand-pressure via a “presure sensitive surface.” And maybe read your fingerprints? More »

It’s like Cub Scouts all over again- only this time I don’t have Power Rangers on TV to distract me from earning these babies.

Fun Skill Patches Offered by Adafruit

Phil Torrone of Adafruit sent me a bag full of maker skill patches. When my 9-year-old daughter came home from school today, her eyes popped…

This might actually become a viable reality, once we create the most important artificial organ of all- the brain.

The Immortal — a Circuit of Organ Replacement Machines

http://vimeo.com/41160704 The Immortal is a work of art by Revital Cohen. A number of life-support machines are connected to each other, circulating liquids and air…

I'm going to build this, and see if I can't use it to help me build my new Iron Man suit.

Inertial Control Orb for Desktop Spherical Display

I've previously identified Nirav Patel's homebrew spherical display unit, which I first covered in September 2011, as the coolest thing I wrote about that entire…

Bethesda put out a free browser-based version of Wolfenstein 3D, proving once again that browsers are the (eventual) future of PC gaming. Now if only Google could get wider adoption of WebGL….