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To be $200,000 jobs created. the whisper number is 300,000 jobs created. >> amazon is taking a major step away from selling other companys products, kind of selling their own. explain this one. >> yeah. this is a settop box. for 99 bucks you will get an internet connected set top box that goes up against the likes of google, goes up against the likes of apple who are way ahead at the moment in terms of shipments. they will put video online, streamed video, plus their own catalog, plus you can bu...

>> you can steer the planes -- >> reporter: a system that allows a virtual handshake with someone on the other side of the world or software that allows an ordinary camera to take 3d pictures. many of these ideas from microsofts research labs will never take off, but heres one that has. the xbox kinect system turns a players body into a games controller and transforms anyone into an avatar. it does whatever i do and i can talk to another avatar, which can be a real person thousands of miles away...