At E3, Microsoft announced 'Kinectimals', one of the new Xbox titles that will take advantage of its upcoming Kinect system. Kinect is a controller-free interface system that tracks the users actions, facial expressions, and voice.

This seems a little too familiar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL_Id6jKfXc

Hopefully it will be more parent-friendly...

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jJ

"A cup of tea!" Scary though, knowing they are getting hooked up to the rooms 2-3-4-5 year olds!! (Video, after the opening diatribe, is worth a view.)

Peter and Wendy would be pleased.

Here's the commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs2x3jFTb2E

Doesn't show as much but it's a lot more polished.

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jJ

Bradburian!! The rhetoric of the promo-guy is as sharp as a well honed knife...451!

The little girl, so cute, is completely in tune with her family and big screen friends. "You interact just like you interact in the real world. The players in the game are the real stars. Experiences that unite your family and friends to a common goal!! The time to talk is over. No controller. Never possible before. Adopt your pets from around the world."

Tonight I'm getting one for each of the boys' rooms, with BIG screens for each of the walls, too.

The lions were coming. And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room. A miracle of efficiency selling for an absurdly low price. Every home should have one. Oh, occasionally they frightened you with their clinical accuracy, they startled you, gave you a twinge, but most of the time what fun for everyone, not only your own son and daughter, but for yourself when you felt like a quick jaunt to a foreign land, a quick change of scenery. Well, here it was!

And here were the lions now, fifteen feet away, so real, so feverishly and startlingly real that you could feel the prickling fur on your hand, and your mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of their heated pelts, and the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite French tapestry, the yellows of lions and summer grass, and the sound of the matted lion lungs exhaling on the silent noontide, and the smell of meat from the panting, dripping mouths.


- Ray Bradbury, "The Veldt"

Right on Phil!! The irony of the harmless tiger cub (a man eater in several months when nearly full grown) was not lost on this RB fan!! Why not have the kid playing with a dolphin or puppy or even a pony?

No, those filthy buzzards, barely evident in the distant background, must be dining on some recently fallen sick, old zebra...