SEOUL, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- Microsoft Kinect technology, usually used in video games, is now being used to monitor the border between North Korea and South Korea. A South Korean programmer, Jae Kwan Ko, has modified the video game system to monitor the border for trespassers. The modifications not only allow the system to recognize movement across the border, but also to differentiate between human or animal movement. If the system detects a human, it alerts a nearby outpost.
Ko probably did not know the purpose of the program and was quoted by CNET as saying, "I've never even thought of a game system performing national defense tasks." Not much is known about the program due to national security but the programmer says he plans to update the system to detect both heat signatures and heart rates.
[Newsy]
