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Point, click: a review of gesture control technologies

The first major success in gesture control technology was the mouse. If you're too young to have a first digital memories, which might seem like an odd claim. My three years is as mystified by the mouse and keyboard than it is building blocks. Once upon a time, however, we need lessons in how the motion of a rolling device on the table for the motion of something on the screen called the pointer. "

We caught, quickly, of course. But this was foreign territory for a while.I bring this up because in some circles these days, gestural control of digital devices is mentioned as the next big thing. Meanwhile, others have questioned the feasibility of the concept. Will I accidentally erased my Word document scratching the nose? Will I need to learn a new language, strange gestures? Is anyone really going to bother? (The image above is from a design patented by Nokia in 2008, showing a gesture vocabularies of many proposed.)

Prognosis is a hoax, but it is not too difficult to imagine that what happened with the mice could occur with today's emerging technologies to control movement. The success of the Wii, which has officially become the best-selling Nintendo console of all time, a good omen. Several companies are fishing for dominance in a market still very young competitors the Wii, the action of applications for mobile entertainment systems, gesture-based host, etc..