All Articles Tagged Gesture Control

Tom LeBlanc | 02/03 09:24 AM, 10 Comments

Crestron grabbed some eyeballs at Integrated Systems Europe 2012 in Amsterdam by demonstrating how its control systems can read Microsoft Kinect gestures. Crestron says it has been testing a new technology by Microsoft that allows Kinect technology to be supported on any Windows-based system, and not just Xbox as in the past. From Crestron: Crestron engineers created, and are testing, gestures that integrate Kinect with Crestron control. Crestron control systems will read Kinect gestures so, for example, presenters can sweep their hands left or right to advance/reverse a PowerPoint Presentation… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 01/11 09:53 AM, 0 Comments

Every year, the Consumer Electronics Association picks 5 Technology Trends to Watch. For 2012, the organization included “alternative input technologies,” and we couldn’t agree more. But while CEA spends considerable energy on the “emerging” trend of touchscreens (yawn), we believe 2012 could be a break-out year for other, newer technologies - especially voice control, but also near-field communication (NFC), gesture-based control, biometrics and RFID. Is it finally time for voice control? Speech recognition has been available for quite some time, and has been implemented in many DIY-type automation systems for… View this story

Arlen Schweiger | 12/21 08:34 AM, 0 Comments

There is more good news for those who are interested in, or banking on, voice control technology as one of the next big things in custom electronics - we certainly are, having named it as one of our Top 5 Hot Home Tech Opportunities for 2012. LG Electronics' new Magic Remote for its Cinema 3D Smart TVs won't be your run-of-the-mill clicker. Nope, the Magic Remote may sound more like something out of an infomercial, but LG says the device will be equipped with some of those newfangled alternative input… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 12/13 09:20 AM, 0 Comments

FAIL! That’s how DaniWeb.com sums up the new Gesture-enabled SmartControl Motion universal remote control from One For All. Reviewer Davey Winder says the “traditional” functionality of the remote control – learning and macros, for example – works just fine, but there’s nothing too interesting about that. The cool factor is the gesture control, in which flicking the remote, tapping it, and flipping it can trigger a variety of A/V commands. Cool, writes Winder, but not all that good: The thing is, the flicking thing works kind of. Sometimes it takes… View this story