In a move that will thrill advertisers but make at least some members of the public queasy, a European outdoor advertising firm is rolling out ads using face detection this week. The technol... Read more
Leap Motion is on its way. With the clock ticking down to the PC gesture controller’s July 22 launch, Leap has a brand new teaser video that showcases the device’s interaction with Windows.... Read more
A transparent computer that allows users to reach inside and touch digital content has been unveiled at the TED conference in Los Angeles. TED fellow Jinha Lee has been working on the SpaceT... Read more
As part of the New York Times Innovation Issue, we asked some of the biggest brains we know to tell us what the future holds. Tim Wu, Author of “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall o... Read more
With a single piece of inexpensive hardware — a multicolored glove — MIT researchers are making Minority Report-style interfaces more accessible. Ever since Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi mo... Read more
In the 2002 movie Minority Report, part of the “way out there” 2054 technology was a computer system that Tom Cruise navigated his way through via arm and hand gestures. That technology – mi... Read more
I am standing in a living-room-of-the-future. You can navigate the TV using hand movements, instantly swishing and touching to get subtitles to any international programming. Yes, a la Minor... 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
Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is th... Read more