As one of the most promising platforms to have appeared 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 market place (which is currently worth many multiples of billions more each year). Nowadays the Xbox is considered cutting-edge and competes directly with Sony’s just as exceptional Playstation, but recently the stakes were elevated 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 activity. The highly state-of-the-art motion-detection technology makes it possible to scan even facial gestures!