Microsoft recently filed a patent application for technology that would give its Xbox 360 Kinect sensor the ability to read users facial expressions and body language, thus enabling Microsoft to send them ads based on their emotional states. Through the Kinect 's camera, users would be studied for reactions, speech patterns and body movements, all stored in an online log and run through an algorithm to determine an emotional state that is positive, happy, confused, neutral, negative, angry or sad, ...

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