Time magazine recognizes Natal, interesting...

TIME has recognized Microsoft's Project Natal as one of TIME Magazine’s Inventions of the Year. Project Natal has also recently received both the Popular Mechanics 2009 Breakthrough Award and the Popular Science Best of What's New Grand Award.

TIME has selected Project Natal to be in this year's list in acknowledgement of Microsoft's demonstration of the hands-free controller and the ways it plans to change the way we interact with games.

"Since time immemorial — or at least since Pong — one barrier that has stood between gamers and total Tron-like immersion in their video games has been the controller: the joystick, trackball, mouse, light gun or whatever. This year Microsoft demonstrated a technology, code-named Project Natal, that enables players to control games using only body movements and voice commands, no controller required — the gamer's body becomes the controller."



Congrats goes out to everyone who has been working hard on the project!

For the full list of Inventions of the Year read the full TIME article here.