Microsoft's Hands-Free Answer to the Nintendo Wii
From: Scientific American - 02/2010 - page 24
By: Susan Kuchinskas

Good-bye, controller: an Xbox upgrade reads natural gestures

When Nintendo's Wii game console debuted in November 2006, its motion-sensing
handheld "Wiimotes" got players off the couch and onto their feet. Now
Microsoft hopes to outdo its competitor by eliminating the controller
altogether: this past January it revealed details of Project Natal, which
will give Xbox 360 users the ability to manipulate on-screen characters via
natural body movement. The machine-learning technology will enable players to
kick a digital soccer ball or swat a handball simply by mimicking the motion
in their living room. 

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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=naked-gaming-microsoft-natal-wii

Links:
Gallery:
http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/gallery/2010-01/natal-gallery

Project Natal
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/projectnatal/

Project Natal YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_txF7iETX0