As one of the most promising platforms to have surfaced at the turn of the century, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was at first greeted with widespread derision as a Johnny-Come-Lately to the nine billion-dollar videogaming market (which is today worth many multiples of billions more per year). These days the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes directly with Sony’s just as impressive Playstation, but recently the stakes were lifted with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that pledges to do away with game controllers once and for all, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen activity. The highly leading-edge motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!