As one of the most promising platforms to have emerged at the turn of the century, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was primarily 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). Today the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes right with Sony’s similarly exceptional Playstation, but lately the stakes were elevated with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that claims to do away with game controllers completely, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen motion. The highly leading-edge motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!