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Microsoft Kinect has been overall an exciting technological advancement in gesture control, to move things forward and enable use of the technology without any dedicated specialized hardware. Microsoft Research has now came up with "SoundWave" - a project aimed to gesture enable your computer using no specialized sensors or devices but just the in-built speaker and microphone. The technology makes smart use of "Doppler effect" to detect movements and gestures near a computer, the complex algorithm used to send-receive and decode gesture controls have some exciting usage scenarios like auto wake and sleep your computer, playing gesture controlled games and day-to-day computer navigation using air-gestures as shown in the video - add to that you can use this technology in a crowded place with lots of noise and even while playing audio from your speakers .

Full demonstration video after the jump.

Everybody loves free games and when the offering is a well-known popular Flight Simulator game from "Microsoft" the excitement is definitely more. The newest version of Microsoft’s popular Flight Simulator game "Microsoft Flight" is now absolutely free, the game is more of an arcade-styled now and so the simulator tag is no more.

Scheduled to be officially unveiled on 03 March 2012, the official demo for one of the most anticipated game of this year "Mass Effect 3" is now available for downloading on PC, XBOX 360 and PS3 platforms. The DEMO features two spectacular levels from the single-player campaign, along with intense four player co-op multiplayer matches.

Impressed by all those Microsoft Kinect Hacks out there, good news is you can now enjoy the same platform on your Windows machine - announced officially by Microsoft the "Kinect For Windows" will be available starting February 1, 2012.

The Guinness World Record holder for the "fastest selling consumer electronics device ever", Kinect handheld motion-sensing controller for XBOX360 got sold 18 million pieces past year. The new natural user interface system enables advanced human tracking, gesture recognition, voice control and so the user becomes the controller.