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`Microsoft Teams with Interlink
`Electronics for Xbox
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`January 26, 2001 | By Matthew Barker
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`January 26, 2001 | By Matthew Barker
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`Interlink Electronics announced that the Xbox video
`game console from Microsoft will incorporate
`Interlink's patented Force Sensing Resistor to deliver
`enhanced user control of gaming action. 
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`Xbox, which is scheduled to launch in fall 2001, has
`six buttons located near the top of the Xbox controller
`that guide character movements and actions. Utilizing
`Interlink's FSR technology, these buttons afford
`precise pressure sensitive control of slow character
`movements, as well as accelerated character actions. 
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```Xbox promises to `raise the bar' in video gaming when it launches later this year,'' said Ray Pearson,
`Interlink’s vice president of Sales and Marketing, ``It is designed to redefine the gaming experience
`visually, mentally and viscerally through enhanced user­control of the gaming environment. 
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```Interlink Electronics' FSR technologies were created to enable more intuitive interface controls, and their
`contribution to the Xbox game controller is to deliver this enhanced level of game control, and the intense
`user satisfaction that goes with it. We are delighted to be a part of such a cutting­edge product.''
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