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Of course if you can get your hands on a Wii at the moment you may well be interested in the thoughts of some bod from Intel who reckons that that the next generation of the wildly-successful games console could ditch the Wiimote completely and go all "Minority Report" on us. 

According to this article from BusinessWeek, Justin Rattner, Intel's chief technology officer believes that you will only need a few motion-capture cameras set up in your liviing room to control characters such as Mario or Zelda.

"We imagine some future generation of [Nintendo's] Wii won't have hand controllers,"said Rattner. "You just set up the cameras around the room and wave your hand like you're playing tennis."  Of course all the next generation consoles on the market at the moment use IBM's PowerPC chips and not Intel silicon.

At the moment the boffins in the backroom are working on chips that perform a trillion calculations per second, which Intel reckons is just perfect for all the motion sensing malarkey. The next set of IBM chips are expected to perform 256 billion calculations per second.

This comes just in time as we celebrate the 60th birthday of the transistor, not bad for something that gets its free front-side bus pass this week.

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