Lenovo, best known for buying IBM's ThinkPad line of notebooks, is venturing into the world of game consoles by creating its own dubbed the eBox.
Lenovo's foray into gaming will start on its home turf: China. The eBox will not have a controller, like Microsoft's Kinect. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal.) The Kinect, a $150 motion-sensing game controller for the Xbox 360, is due out in November.
The eBox will also use motion-sensing technology, Lenovo told The China Daily, and the company has put 40 Lenovo software engineers to work to develop and market the eBox using a company name of eedoo Technology.
"We are the world's second company to produce a controller-free game console, behind only Microsoft," Jack Luo, president of eedoo Technology told the newspaper.
"Ebox uses a camera to track player movement, but unlike Nintendo's Wii or Sony's Move system, ebox can plot movements and translate them into onscreen action without the need for a controller," the newspaper said.
Lenovo completed its acquisition of IBM's Personal Computing Division in 2005. The division includes the popular Thinkpad laptops, as well as IdeaPads.
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hehehe, another console jumping out there all of a sudden, usually they fade away real fast, like the jaguar, panasonic 3d0, phillips cd-I, and all those other junky consoles that thought they would stand a chance.