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Photos: MIT lab throws open its doors

Photos: MIT lab throws open its doors

...be able to make objects with shape-shifting materials. A person uses gestures and an image of the vase on a tablet computer to change... Read more

30 April, 2012 by Martin LaMonica
Microsoft shows off sound-based Kinect

Microsoft shows off sound-based Kinect

...in the frequency of the tone, SoundWave is able to "infer various gestures".Since the technology is under the control of Microsoft Research, it's... Read more

9 May, 2012 by Don Reisinger

Gesture control: Touching the future of computing

...rate. Cannan is considering maximising the device's chances of accurately detecting gestures by combining EMG with another gesture-recognition technique called acoustic myography. Acoustic... Read more

17 March, 2011 by Nick Heath
Facial recognition, <endeca_term>gesture</endeca_term> tech leads the way

Facial recognition, gesture tech leads the way

...Heath/silicon.comFor more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Photos: Gesture controls, eye-tracking tech and facial recognition on silicon.com. Get the... Read more

8 March, 2011 by Nick Heath

Microsoft: Windows 8 to use gestures for login

...the photo with their finger (or mouse if using a PC). Those gestures then serve as your actual log-in as Windows interprets them to... Read more

20 December, 2011 by Lance Whitney

Photos: Microsoft's OmniTouch - The tech that turns any surface into a touchscreen

...of fingers on any surface, it can be set up to recognise gestures such as pinch-zooming on a map. Microsoft Research Redmond researcher Hrvoje... Read more

18 October, 2011 by Nick Heath

Start-up promises gesture-control mobile tech

...technology. People may soon be able to control their mobile phones with gestures, thanks to pioneering new technology. Photo credit: Stephen Shankland/CNET News This... Read more

18 February, 2011 by Stephen Shankland

Microsoft to buy gesture-control firm Canesta

...plans to acquire Canesta, a firm specialising in technology that enables human gestures to power devices, the companies said on Friday. Canesta president and chief... Read more

1 November, 2010 by Erica Ogg

Apple wins patent on 'slide-to-unlock' feature

...rights to unlocking a touchscreen device by tracing a preset pattern or gesture with a finger. The patent specifically describes how, "a device with a... Read more

28 October, 2011 by Rich Trenholm

Google updates Chrome multitouch feature for Lion

...released a new developer version of Chrome to re-enable a multitouch gesture that changed in Lion, the new version of Mac OS X that... Read more

28 July, 2011 by Stephen Shankland
Mac OS X Lion goes touchy feely

Mac OS X Lion goes touchy feely

...Phil Schiller talks about new features coming to Lion and demonstrates multitouch gestures, which give users the ability to swipe and tap through applications and... Read more

9 June, 2011 by Staff

Microsoft releases Kinect for Windows with dev tools

...released the first finalised software development kit (SDK) and runtime for the gesture-control device. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer revealed the shipping date at... Read more

2 February, 2012 by David Meyer

Microsoft's Kinect SDK promises natural UI

...interfaces, where users can tell computers what to do with voices and gestures. "This SDK really helps people move toward that," says Anoop Gupta, an... Read more

17 June, 2011 by Jay Greene

Microsoft eyes business applications for Kinect SDK

...for the company's Xbox 360 game console. Then, using just hand gestures, he drove the chair onto the stage at MIX, Microsoft's annual... Read more

14 April, 2011 by Jay Greene
Accelerometer Based <endeca_term>Gesture</endeca_term> Recognition Using Fusion Features and SVM

Accelerometer Based Gesture Recognition Using Fusion Features and SVM

In this paper, a gesture recognition system based on single tri-axis accelerometer mounted on a cell... Read more

1 June, 2011

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