Gestures

Computing

How To Turn Your Wall Into A Touchscreen Phone Using A Kinect

4:30AM January 25, 2012 | Jamie Condliffe

OK, this isn’t going to be easy, but a developer has posted a video on YouTube showing how it’s possible to use an Android handset, a projector, a Kinect and a computer to create the future. In your living room. Now. More »


Mobile

Rant: iOS Doesn’t Need More Stupid Gestures

1:05PM November 11, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

How many gestures can Apple implement in iOS? Apparently not enough! These new gestures, detailed in a recent patent may end up in your iPad or iPhone in the future. Please no. More »


Mobile

Vega LTE: Pantech’s Phone Goes Kinect

6:40AM November 2, 2011 | Andrew Liszewski

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. More »


Computing

How To Enable Multitasking Gestures And Display Mirroring On The iPad 1 (Without Jailbreaking)

2:00PM October 21, 2011 | Adam Pash

In iOS 5, Apple added some slick multitasking gestures to the iPad that allow you to four-finger swipe to pull up the multitasking drawer, swipe left and right between apps, and five-finger pinch to view the homescreen. They also added AirPlay mirroring, which allows you to view your iPad’s screen on an Apple TV. Both of these features are great, but for whatever reason, Apple decided they were best relegated to the iPad 2. Here’s how to enable the new multitouch swipes and mirroring on your first generation iPad, no jailbreaking required. More »


Geek Out

You Are About To Start Shopping With Gestures Thanks To Kinect

1:04PM September 16, 2011 | Mario Aguilar

It’s about time someone did something cool with Kinect that wasn’t an art project or a glorified Dance Dance Revolution. A new Mastercard prototype makes it scary easy to buy stuff off your TV with the flick of an arm. More »


Cameras

How Gigantic Gigapixel Photos Were Meant To Be Navigated

4:40AM September 8, 2011 | Kyle Wagner

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. More »


Computing

Recompose Is The Keyboard You Don’t Necessarily Have To Touch

11:20AM August 2, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Recompose, the latest piece of technological innovation to come out of MIT’s Media Labs, is in many ways unclassifiable. It’s a user interface whose design part gesture-based, part touch-based and entirely ambiguous in its purpose. Still though, it’s intriguing. More »


Software

Google Adds Two-Finger Lion Gestures To Chrome

6:40PM July 27, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Obviously those who disabled natural scrolling are laughing. But as you may’ve noticed already, Chrome’s three-finger left/right swipe to navigate through previously viewed pages has been broken in Lion, because that gesture now flips between desktops. More »


Science

The Touchscreen With No Screen

11:38PM May 12, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Can you touch what’s not there? That’s what some students have explored in this ZeroTouch project, which has dozens of infrared sensors and LEDs around what appears to be an empty photo-frame. Connected to a computer, it translates the gestures. More »


Computing

Fisting A Multitouch Screen Looks Pretty Fun

10:00AM May 10, 2011 | Casey Chan

Microsoft Surface is a technology that I know exists but wish it was a larger part of my life. And it’s getting better! Microsoft Research has been dabbling with Surface and adding new gestures that incorporate your whole hand, giving you more options than just point, point, point. More »