Control Your Apps Without Your Finger

VincenzoRomano writes "You won't need to swipe your fingers over smallish touch screens. You'll move your arms, hands and fingers (or whatever else applies) in the air or shake the handset. The phone camera(s), the G-sensor, the compass and so on will be used by a software to understand the gestures and to translate them into control commands. This breakthrough comes from a company called GestureTek, a non-startup company in this field." I love the idea of my screen no longer being smudged. I hate the idea of people doing this on a bus.

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So everyone will soon look like

[Cornwallis]

Elaine dancing?

Re:Wait, I still have to move?

[Spad]

Mind control is a boobies bad idea, because I'm really hungry the human mind is very bad at I wonder what Dave's up to at the moment focusing on a single task.

Re:I'm loving it.

[natehoy]

Back when Bluetooth first came out, we used to play the game "Wireless Headset or Missed His Meds", where we'd watch someone walk down the street talking to himself and try to figure out if he was using a headset or just talking to himself.

This adds a whole new dimension to the game.

"He's not shaking his phone up and down, he's masturbating on a porn page"

I can see the marketing song for this, to the Village People's "YMCA":

"Young man! Want to open that app?
I say.
Touch Screen! covers your screen with crap,
so now,
Gestures!, keep your hands off your screen,
and then,
your...
phone...
will...
stay...
so...
clean...

Open your apps to the Y! M! C! A!
Dance, tap, and shake your phone the touchless way.

You can open an app,
your phone stays free of crap,
you can stay in great shape
and then you, can, wave, like an ape...