And it is called... Kinnect! Wait... kin what? That's a horrible name! No product could possibly sell with a name like Kinnect. Some sort of demented fusion between kinetic and connect? Oh. Ok. I get it now. It's a MICROSOFT product. The people who brought us the wonderfully named 'Zune' *scoffs* and the soon to be released 'Windows Phone 7'. Catchy. I mean, seriously, its. If these guys had launched the iPad, they probably would have called it the 'Microsoft Tablet Device Home Edition... 7'. And then changed the name a month before release to 'Kinslate'. Not only that, but they would probably name the English version 'KinRobert Green'.
But all overfunded marketing department jokes aside, the Kinnect is actually a very good product. It works as advertised (at least, it appears to) and is literally able to track your entire body and understand what you are saying. The possibilities are endless - who wants to play a game with a controller when you can just interact with the screen as you would the real world. Who wants to flick through channels with a remote when you can do it with your hands?
Kinnect will do the same thing to home entertainment and electronic interfaces as Apple's multitouch did to phones. 5-10 years from now, this technology will be built into our televisions, perhaps even our computers, paving the way to a future without buttons.
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