Kinect hacked days after release!

The attempt to hack the control system for the Kinect gadget was kick-started by electronics kit maker Adafruit. On 4 November it announced it would pay $1,000 (£624) to the first person to produce control software, known as drivers, for the Kinect.

Microsoft reported they were unhappy with the attempt to make unofficial modifications to the gadget. Adafruit upped the bounty to $3,000 (£1,871) after Microsoft announced they did not condone the reverse engineering of Kinect.

The person who got Adafruit's payment was hacker Hector Ma