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August 4th, 2011
Archaeologists Hack Kinect Into 3-D Scanner

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There’s not much business in making gadgets for archaeologists, but that has not stopped the modern day Indiana Jones types from adapting the tools of other trades for their painstaking explorations of ancient cities, battlefields and burial grounds. Their latest triumph comes from hacking Microsoft’s Kinect gaming device to create a handheld 3-D scanner capable of virtually replicating entire dig sites filled with artifacts and unearthed buildings. Read More