Kinect for the Xbox 360 has been dubbed the fastest-selling consumer electronics device by the Guinness World Records. The hardware, that allows controller-free gaming, sold through an average of 133,333 units per day, totaling 8 million units in its first 60 days, the publisher says - outstripping both the iPhone and the iPad for the equivalent periods after launch." We can confirm that no other consumer electronics device sold faster within a 60-day time span, an incredible achievement considering the strength of the sector," Gaz Deaves, Editor of Guinness World Records 2011 Gamer’s Edition, says.

As the Kinect is taken up by so many consumers so quickly, it is also paving the way for interactive technologies - deemed intrusive not that long ago - to become more accepted as well. The gaming device is changing consumers' ideas about how they should interact with televisions, computers and other digital screens, John Mayo-Smith, chief technology officer at R/GA, tells the Wall Street Journal. "It will be less of a novelty and more of an expectation." The Journal reports that some ad companies are using the Kinect’s hardware for other uses.

Big Spaceship is using Kinect as a three-dimensional scanner that connects to a 3-D printer. Consumers can use it to create a custom piece of jewelry as one example.