The skeletal recognition tech behind Kinect is useful for way more than just gaming. It's good for sign language, cheating at pool, and (duh) porn. But it could help stop violence, too. Thanks to Kinect, security cams could automatically know if they're witnessing a beat-down. Kintense, a system designed by Shahriar Nirjon and colleagues at the University of Virginia, uses Kinect's skeletal tracking and an algorithm with an eye for punches and kicks to tell if folks on camera are in the middle of a scuffle. And while it was originally intended to alert medical staff to patients who...