gestures
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Your Fat Thumb Could Let You Navigate Your Smartphone Single-Handedly
Thanks to researchers at the University of Calgary, you no longer have to be ashamed of your gigantic thumbs. In fact, their Fat Thumb smartphone interface takes advantage of your opposable digit’s monstrous dimensions to let you fully interact with your device with just one hand.
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Autonomous Drones Could One Day Recognise Flight Crew Gestures
The flight deck on an aircraft carrier is like a perfectly choreographed ballet. And to ensure that unmanned autonomous aircraft fit right in, researchers at MIT are developing a system that will let drones recognise and follow gestures from the flight crew.
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Vega LTE: Pantech’s Phone Goes Kinect
Pantech isn’t known for their cutting edge phones, but that will soon change with their upcoming Vega LTE line that recognises touchless gestures using its front facing camera, like a miniature version of Microsoft’s Kinect.
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How Gigantic Gigapixel Photos Were Meant To Be Navigated
Navigating through a giant, massively detailed photo should be freaking amazing, not confined to a tiny control panel like it too-often is. The Gigalinc project from the University of Lincoln takes all the coolness of humongous photos and lets you control it with Kinect gestures. Awesome.