Kinect, Microsoft's video-game con troller that registers a user's intentions from his gestures, will be the shape of things to come if Chris Harrison, a re searcher at the Human-Computer Inter action Institute at Carnegie Mellon Uni versity, in Pittsburgh, has his way. Mr Harrison thinks the Kinect's basic princi ples could be used to make a technological panopticon that monitors people's move ments and gives them what they want, wherever they want it.
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