[CJ Wolf]

I got one for my sons birthday last week. He has gone from slouching on the couch to full on activity nonstop. He complains that he is sore from it.

I’m one of those awestruck people. It’s really incredible and I’m not one to be normally wowed by new tech.

Some notes:
1. Bill Gates may very well have solved Americas “obesity problem” with this.
2. A 5 year old girl can now play games on the Xbox it’s that easy and intuitive.
3. The world isn’t ready for this kind of technology.

Boxing is amazing, as is table tennis. (good old pong)
Star wars I hear is coming out, but fencing would be cool too.

[Eye of Unk]

I am stuck here in Alaska being seasonally laid off until spring, its something I make plans for every year.

So here I am a 53 year old guy that is a master mechanic and a concrete mixer driver, but even the last two weeks of me just sitting in my recliner day after day I can already feel the softness settling in, I feel like sleeping more.

I have a pretty good sized man cave, I have the 360 with a 57” Toshiba DLP widescreen, the ceiling is over 10’ in the middle of the room. I would really love to have some form of karate or martial arts game, boxing will do, maybe kickboxing would be a decent workout.

What I would really love is some form of swordplay, fencing or even at the far end a jousting competition. Being that the individual Kinect console is sold out up here and my only choice right now is buying the newer 360 kinda makes me hesitate, but I might anyway. My 360 is an older unit but its still running, it may be just waiting to be driven harder and then it will croak like the many before it.

I have two teens, and two younger children, it might not be a bad idea anyway to buy it for the family. I’m kinda surprised more people are not paranoid about its facial mapping software sending that information to Microsoft, it is possible.....A Minority Report in the beginning here?

[Erik Latranyi]

Bill Gates may very well have solved Americas “obesity problem” with this.

Then again, I can imagine liberals complaining that because Kinect allows users to change channels via voice command, it will cause couch potatoes' fingers to get fat.