Mute the song playing on your smartphone in your pocket by flicking your index finger in the air, or pause your “This American Life” podcast with a small wave of the hand. This kind of gestu... Read more
Forget to turn off the lights before leaving the apartment? No problem. Just raise your hand, finger-swipe the air, and your lights will power down. Want to change the song playing on your m... Read more
The smallest gesture can hide a world of meaning. A particular flick of a baton and a beseeching gesture can transform the key moment of a concert from mundane to ethereal. Alas, computers a... Read more
Forget voice control or gesture recognition: gadgets may soon link directly to our brains Okay, great: we can control Our phones with speech recognition and our television sets with gesture... Read more
The new technology uses the Doppler effect Not one to be outdone by Disney’s any-surface touch interface, Microsoft Research, working with the University of Washington, has developed a Kinec... Read more
‘Smart Doorknobs’ and Gesture-Controlled Smartphones A doorknob that knows whether to lock or unlock based on how it is grasped, a smartphone that silences itself if the user hol... Read more
If you step back or leave the area observed by the Kinect sensor you will be disconnected The Lithuanian company ETRONIKA has developed a Microsoft Kinect-based online banking applica... Read more
Among the functions able to be done via gesture will be answering calls and playing music. Korean phone maker Pantech, best known in the U.S. for low-end Android and messaging phones,... Read more
Microsoft’s Kinect SDK Beta A potential game-changer is coming to business in the form of gesture recognition, courtesy of Microsoft’s Kinect SDK, due for release in early 2012.... Read more
Although surgeons need to frequently review medical images and records during surgery, they’re also in the difficult position of not being able to touch non-sterile objects such as keyboards... Read more
Image via CrunchBase Prepare for Windows 8: Minority Report Edition Microsoft said on Friday that it was buying Canesta, a small Silicon Valley company that specializes in gesture-recognitio... Read more