Our top picks for Kinect ingenuity - Slideshow

Microsoft's Kinect has attracted interest from software developers and system engineers who are keen to determine whether they can apply the system's 3-D imaging, motion sensing, and gesture recognition capabilities to applications outside the gaming industry, as well as develop additional technologies for use in conjunction with Kinect. Applications that now employ this device range from mechanical engineering to tracking construction workers. Read on to see which developments we think are the most intriguing.

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