Oh man! It turns out that Star Wars Kid was doing nothing less than predicting the future. The awesome future. Microsoft has demonstrated its Project Natal, which has been renamed Kinect and transformed into a motion-controller for the Xbox 360.

Kinect, which will be available in November, uses a camera and a microphone to turn a player's movements into in-game movements. In a demonstration at the E3 show in Los Angeles last night, Microsoft showed of the peripheral with a huge performance by Cirque du Soleil, which was, according to Twitter, impressive.

Even better was the demo of a new LucasArts Star Wars game, which lets the player control his on-screen avatar by acting as a Jedi, just like Star Wars Kid. The above clip, which managed to sneak out onto YouTube ahead of official video, shows the Kinect in action. It looks fantastic: to pull out your light-saber you just, well, pull out your light-saber. To throw a huge spaceship across the room you simply wave your hand as if you were controlling the Force.

holy.... shit.... just the thought of finally having a game where you can swing your arms around and use a lightsaber is enough to get me excited -- haven't really been down with this whole "project natal" thing that microsoft's been talking about all year, but if they come out with a new slick Star Wars game that's actually kickass? dude, i might have to break down and buy it.