Top Five Uses For Your Kinect Besides Gaming

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Kinect Can Help You Control Your Pet Robot

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Have you ever wanted an army of robots to fulfill your every whim without you looking like you’re forcing them to do so? Willow Garage figured out how to control the PR2 Robot with their Kinects. Be careful what you wish for: Maybe some day the robots might be using the Kinect to control you.

(More on TIME.com: iFixit Opens Up Kinect, Likes What They See)

Kinect Can Make Shadow Puppets

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Now this is a Kinect game that I’m desperate to play. It’s can have an unlimited number of players, you don’t need that much instruction and you never have to wait for your turn.

(More on TIME.com: Kinect Makes Good on its Word, Outsells iPad)

Kinect Can Turn You Into A Mighty Morphin’ Power Ranger

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Okay not a Power Ranger exactly, but with the right programs, your Kinect can make you morph into an ogre. Now you can finally star in that Animorphs fan flick you always wanted to make.

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