Scott Hanselman Takes “Jellybean”, the Kinect-Controlled Lounge Chair, for a Spin

by Joey deVilla on April 13, 2011

clint jellybean

One of the highlights of the Day Two keynote at the MIX conference was the Kinect presentation, where we showed off a number of things that were possible with the upcoming Kinect API for Windows. One of the projects was Clint Rutkas’ Jellybean, a Kinect-controlled lounge chair (pictured above) that can be driven and reclined using only hand motions.

Later that day, Scott Hanselman interviewed Clint on Channel 9 Live and asked if he could take Jellybean for a test run. Clint obliged, and anticipating some YouTube-worthy hilarity, whipped out my Windows Phone and shot the video below:

This article also appears in Canadian Developer Connection.

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