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 at present worth many multiples of billions more yearly). As of late the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes directly with Sony’s equally notable Playstation, but lately the stakes were elevated with Microsoft’s introduction of its Kinect technology that pledges to do away with game controllers completely, using the player’s own body movements to direct all onscreen activity. The highly state-of-the-art motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!