As you probably know, Kinect has been hacked and it can do a range of awesome things, and the latest trick up its sleeve is a way to play Super Mario Bros with Kinect.

That's right, now you can play good old Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 2, and Super Mario Bros 3 with your Kinect. Combination of latest motion sensing technology of Kinect and old Super Mario games sure sounds awesome, but does it work that way?

In order to move Mario, you have to move to the side of the screen and move your legs, and this works pretty well, but it cannot be compared to the good old standard controller. Same goes for jumping and crouching, in order to make Mario jump or crouch you have to do the same, but like we said, it might not work as well as you think.

Sure, this is a refreshing way to play Super Mario Bros games, but we doubt that someone will seriously use Kinect to play old NES classics, its fun but not by any means practical.

[via Engadget]

We are positive that there will be more robots in the future, but today we have another piece of future that will make you move, so let's have a closer look at it.

Although this robot might not replace your Segway, it's still amazing and innovative. This robot comes from Vagabond Works, and it is created by Dutch sculptor Theo Jansens. Great thing about this robot is that it has 12 mechanical legs that allow you to move smoothly and safely. Unlike Segway, Crawler eXtreme isn't that fast and it can carry 175 pounds without any problems. In order to use this thing, just step on it, grab its control pad, and you're good to go. Although Crawler eXtreme works fine for now, it's rather noisy and we're hoping that its creator will fix that in future revisions.

Anyhow, Crawler eXtreme is great, but don't expect it to see it in stores, or to replace Segway anytime soon.

[via�Gizmowatch]

This student DG Kanatsios received a computer-controlled desktop missile launcher and developed a Windows Forms application that exposes some web service operations that control the missile launcher via his Windows Phone 7 device. The end result is a missile launcher controller in the palm of his hands.

Check out the video demo below…

If you're interested in how you might be able to create your own mini missile launcher, check out the source link below…

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