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 marketplace (which is currently worth many multiples of billions more per year). As of late the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes directly with Sony’s just as amazing Playstation, but lately the stakes were raised with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that promises to do away with game controllers completely, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen actions. The highly state-of-the-art motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!