Mute the song playing on your smartphone in your pocket by flicking your index finger in the air, or pause your “This American Life” podcast with a small wave of the hand. This kind of gesture control ...

You can do all kinds of wonderful things with cameras and image recognition. However, sometimes spatial data is useful, too. As [madmcu] demonstrates, you can use depth data from a time-of-flight ...

When David Holz, CTO of Leap Motion, first told me not to focus too much on the company's hardware because the real magic was in the software, I only half believed him. After listening to Microsoft ...

If you like the idea of talking to your car to operate certain functions, you can now wave and take a swipe at it. While gesture recognition is used in consumer electronics, it is now creeping into ...

Computer scientists at the University of Washington have developed a way to use a modified Wi-Fi router to detect specific gestures -- even through walls -- without the need for additional sensors or ...

Researchers have shown it's possible to leverage Wi-Fi signals around us to detect specific movements without needing sensors on the human body or cameras. Using a Wi-Fi router and a few wireless ...

Scientists have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) system that recognises hand gestures by combining skin-like electronics with computer vision. Scientists from Nanyang Technological University ...