As one of the most promising platforms to have come about 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 every year). Nowadays the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes right with Sony’s similarly amazing Playstation, but recently the stakes were increased with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that promises to do away with game controllers altogether, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen motion. The highly superior motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!