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Top 10 Most Innovative Gesture Control Technologies To Control Your Smartphones, Tablets, Laptops And Televisions 

Today, i’ve made a list of innovative “Gesture Control Technologies” to control your Smartphones, Tablets, Laptops and Televisions without having to touch them. Sound’s Cool… isn’t. Here are few most innovative, impressive and magical gesture-control technologies:

Samsung Smart TV

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Samsung Smart TV – allows you to change channels and search and launch your favorite apps (Netflix, Hulu, etc.) using either hand gestures or voice controls.

Flutter-  the next frontier in HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) — and change the world forever by making gesture based interaction with computers ubiquitous. a Mac application that turns your webcam into a Kinect-like controller.

Wave Control by MarksThinkTank- Wave Control, Control Your Phone With a Wave of Your Hand. Uses the proximity sensor to allow control of your music playback and calls by waving your hand over your phone. You can download Wave Control for your Android phone in the Google Play Store.

Xbox 360 with Kinect – Kinect brings games and entertainment to life in extraordinary new ways – no controller required. Easy to use and instantly fun, Kinect gets everyone off the couch moving, laughing and cheering.

Samsung Smart TV – allows you to change channels and search and launch your favorite apps (Netflix, Hulu, etc.) using either hand gestures or voice controls.

Fuego’s River Adventure – Crimson App’s Fuego’s River Adventure is a fun arcade adventure game where you control Fuego by jumping, running and moving side to side. Utilizing LokkoMotion technology to detect your movements through the front camera on the iPad, Fuego will jump, run and move when you move. You can download Fuego’s River Adventure for the iPad here in the iTunes store.

Sony Xperia sola With ‘Floating Touch’- With floating touch, you’re essentially using your finger like a mouse cursor on your phone’s display, hovering your pointer finger over the screen and pre-highlighting links and icons before you actually touch them to launch.

The Waze GPS App, With Hands-Free Traffic Reporting – After typing in your destination address, just drive with the app open on your phone to passively contribute traffic and other road data. You can also take a more active role by sharing road reports on accidents, police traps, or any other hazards along the way, helping to give other users in the area a ‘heads-up’ about what’s to come. Waze is a free app for the iPhone and Android.

MicroVision Pico Projectoragic – The MicroVision SHOWWX+ laser pico projector can project pictures, movies, streaming video and presentations from an Apple iPod, MacBook, windows-based laptop, digital camera, and more.

Tobii Eye Control – Eye tracking by Tobii Technology has revolutionized research in many fields and enabled communication for thousands of people with special needs. Tobii offers world-leading eye tracking and eye control for research, communication and industrial integration.

Leap Motion -  a San Francisco-based motion-control software and hardware company, has unveiled impressive technology called “Leap”, a small USB input device.   Once connected to your computer via USB, it creates a four-cubic-foot virtual workspace.

About the author: Mike Martinez

A journalist With global perspective and voracious appetite for international news, he leads reporters and commission stories among journalists who are focused on resources markets and companies. (mike.martinez@ceoworld.biz)