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Lenovo To Launch Chinese Gaming Platform Called Ebox

Posted by Soulskill on from the wide-open-market dept.

siliconbits writes "Chinese manufacturer Lenovo will build a video gaming console for the Chinese market and has already spun off a company called Eedoo Technology, including a team of 40 engineers, with the task of developing the platform. It will be called the Ebox, and will be specifically designed to recognize shapes and movement without the need for a dedicated game controller, not unlike Microsoft's Kinect."

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  1. I for one Welcome by KillaGouge · · Score: 0, Funny

    I for one Welcome our new motion sensing Chiense overlords. Did I do that right?

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    1. Re:I for one Welcome by TheKidWho · · Score: 4, Funny

      No, you spelled Chinese wrong.

    2. Re:I for one Welcome by KillaGouge · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yes, yes I did. Now I feel like an even bigger idiot. Thank you.

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  2. Hmmm... by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 3, Funny

    So its designed to work similar to a Microsoft product...

    It's name has a strange resemblance to a Microsoft product...

    How does that expression about Ducks go again?

    Anyways, Kinect is patented, so if the technology is similar enough, I smell a potential lawsuit.

    1. Re:Hmmm... by LoRdTAW · · Score: 2, Funny

      It probably runs Xbox software backups too.

  3. not unlike Microsoft's Kinect by Un+pobre+guey · · Score: 2, Funny

    not unlike Microsoft's Kinect
    I wonder just how much "not unlike Microsoft's Kinect?"

  4. Re:The "X" in Xbox stood for something. by Locke2005 · · Score: 2, Funny

    To answer my own question: "Easy". Their just asking to be sued by Staples!

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  5. Re:I smell a turd... by Mike+Buddha · · Score: 3, Funny

    As for running a linux gaming console with minimal copy protection, who will make games for it?

    Why the massive Linux game development community for one! I'm surprised no one has thought of this yet! What kid wouldn't want to play Tuxracer and... well just Tuxracer, on Christmas morning?

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