As one of the most promising platforms to have come about at the turn of the century, Microsoft’s Xbox 360 was in the beginning greeted with widespread derision as a Johnny-Come-Lately to the nine billion-dollar videogaming marketplace (which is these days worth many multiples of billions more annually). Currently the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes directly with Sony’s equally remarkable Playstation, but just lately the stakes were lifted 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 state-of-the-art motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!