http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11742236

Wouldn't really call it hacked but pretty inevitable. MS say they're not happy but I imagine there is going to be alot of copycat devices made in the coming years for the PC so surely opening up to the PC market isn't a bad thing? Hopefully some devcies will be better than the Kinect as MS allegedly used cheaper components to keep costs down.

Another note is the obvious success of racket, fitness and dancing games for kinect which my family will love once the rental people send them out to me. But I just saw a review on the figthers uncaged and they say it's absolutely awful. This is really disappointing as I had great hopes that the kinect would bring a whole new level to physical games like tekken, fight night etc. Let's hope it was just because it's a poor game in genral and not any fault of kinect.

My mainboard failed on my laptop so had to replace it but with a compatible one without the seperate gfx card. It works ok but only after switching itself off 5 times from start. You press on and it will light up, turn off 1 sec later and turn back on. It will do this 5 times before finally booting from the HDD. It does this without a drive in there so it's not a Windows problem. Could the mainboard be having problems configuring the processor and have to reboot each time?