Gadget Lab Podcast: Xbox Kinect, Wired’s Fall Test, Skyfire

In this week’s Gadget Lab podcast, Wired.com’s Danny Dumas joins the show to gush about the Xbox Kinect, a brand new accessory that basically turns your body into a game controller. It uses cameras and microphones to detect your skeletal structure. That’s nuts.

          

We also highlight Wired.com’s Fall Test, our selection of 39 best products of 2010. Danny’s personal favorite is Netflix, a movie-streaming service that keeps getting bigger and better.

I wrap up the podcast with an iPhone app I’m not a big fan of: Skyfire, which promises to play Flash videos by automatically transcoding them into iOS-compatible HTML5 video. Problem is, it doesn’t work very well, and it’s not too useful.

Like the show? You can also get the Gadget Lab video podcast via iTunes, or if you don’t want to be distracted by our unholy on-camera talent, check out the Gadget Lab audio podcast. Prefer RSS? You can subscribe to the Gadget Lab video or audio podcast feeds

Or listen to the audio here:

Gadget Lab audio podcast #94

http://downloads.wired.com/podcasts/assets/gadgetlabaudio/GadgetLabAudio0094.mp3


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