I just want a little gizmo that slots into the controller to store stuff like your gamer profile etc, a la the Dreamcast controller. But imagine it these days, a little touch screen doohickey that you could use to change weapons, or have it as a health monitor, or the radar for the game, or an ammo counter, fast select inventory etc etc. Think it would be brilliant.

I'm more concern about the battery life this will consume, i really don't want to be charging a controller every 5 hours.
I wonder if this will affect the signal/response time by either making it superior, recognizing your habit of how many times you press a certain combination of buttons or just flop and hinder your gaming experience.

This doesn't seem useful at all... people don't always hold their controller the same way, when I first pick it up I'm more relaxed and don't really have a set way of holding it. Maybe you'll always hold it a similar way when your in an intense game, but it will probably try to detect you before that.

I think this idea is a incredible waist of time, the biometric controller patent Sony filed could be cool though.

Hmm very interesting. I'll have to look more into this.

Kind of a cool concept, until it continuously signs you in as the wrong person.

Kind of a cool concept, until it continuously signs you in as the wrong person.

But WHY. It's all great and shiny, but WHY DO WE NEED IT? I'm 20. I started my life as a gamer around 5. That means that I've made it 15 years without garbage like this. Why do I need it now?

Is that drawerering to scale?  Either those are some finely manicured tiny hands or that new controller is huge.

You know I would have less of a gripe if they actually tried to add more buttons or some extra gaming mechanism into the hardware. Instead, as I feared, companies are getting gimmicky with really cool but useless tech. Honestly, a pressure sensitive log in?? Are we too lazy than we already are to just push a button a few times? Still there is time and I hope this dumb idea never comes into fruition. As for the PS3 controller vs 360 controller: This is mainly a matter of opinion and I am no different. Having played games on the PS since its reveal, I admit I am biased to the PS controller more than the 360 (eventhough I own both systems). Although I do believe that the 360 controller has a better set up when it comes to FPS games. everything else the PS3 is at the same level or slightly superior, not to mention the fact that you are able to use the PS3 controller on the PC without having to buy a overpriced receiver to make it work with your pc games.

this is interesting. I'd like to learn more

This....is not gonna work

Controller: "Hello Jim, I recognize your sticky fingers. May I suggest less porn and more dating?".

Now, that would be awkward.

Cool, if its anything like the Kinect, not sure if they can pull it off.

Yet another breakable product by Microsoft.

I would've liked more information to be honest but this is still cool.

Stupid.

I was just going to leave a comment about how the Wii mote has built in memory and you already posted it in the article! I think having memory in the controller is brilliant, it's just a shame that Nintendo hasn't utilized that since the Wii launched. I think there was one game, some hot shots golf clone, that you could save your golfer and items to the wiimote and then go play at a friends house and have it all right there. It'd be really cool to see the ability to link your gamer id to a controller and take it to a friends.

It can tell your heart rate during a game! It would be cool perk seeing an enemies hear rate during a cod match!

I don't see how or why this would ever matter.