U.S. video game sector retail sales fell 9% in December from a year, according to market research firm NPD, and the total would have been even lower had it not been for the new Kinect hand- free motion controller for the Microsoft (MSFT) Xbox 360.
Like the Treo devices from Handspring (nasdaq: HAND - news - people ) and the Blackberry devices from Research In Motion (nasdaq: RIMM - news - people ), this PDA has a thumb-operated QWERTY keyboard.
Instead of a hand-sized game pad studded with joysticks and buttons, or the motion sensitive wand used on the Wii, the Wii U is controlled essentially by a tablet computer.
Jones has performed as a monster so many times that Spectral Motion keeps a full-body cast of him on hand.
Additionally, taking self-portraits or group shots are easy thanks to Samsung's unique Gesture Shot, which applies motion-sensing technology so that users can control the camera remotely using hand gestures alone.
According to company CEO Michael Buckwald, who I caught up with recently for the NextMarket podcast, the Leap Motion controller can identify the sub-millimeter tremor or jitter in our hand that is unique to each of us.
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With Samsung's unique Gesture Shot, which uses motion-sensing technology, users can zoom and snap a photo with simple hand motions from across the room.
Furthermore, to help ensure everyone is included in that group shot, the MV900F touts Samsung's ground-breaking Gesture Shot, which uses motion-sensing technology so that users can zoom and snap a photo with simple hand motions from across the room.
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That sword in his right ... hand and the water pistol in his left can be replaced on another swappable character's bottom half -- its motion component -- creating an altogether new character.
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