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Channel Surf With Your Hands, No Remote!

by Terrence O'Brien on July 18, 2007 at 02:01 PM

Control Your TV With Hand Gestures

For some people (possibly including some of our readers), even pressing buttons on a remote is simply too much work. Who wants to hit a whole bunch of buttons? What happens if you lose the remote? Then you'll have to get up and change the channel by hand. And no one wants that.

Thankfully a group of Australian scientists has developed a prototype device that will allow you to control your TV and other home entertainment devices with hand gestures. The device uses a camera to watch for a set of predetermined gestures to turn equipment on or off, change channels, etc.

This new-fangled bit of tech wizardry has software that helps it weed out unintended gestures, so that flailing children or over active pets can't accidentally change the channel on you. The scientists are working on shrinking the technology down so that it can be built into gadgets like televisions and DVD players. They hope to have the controller-less controller in stores within the next three years.

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