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• On MBW 48: Pick of the Week is Fly Gesture

  Published: July 11, 2007, 12:35 pm

  Tags: Productivity, Elsewhere, Podcasts, Fly Gesture, Gus Mueller, Macbreak Weekly, Twit Tv

  MacBreak Weekly is Fly Gesture, which is a nifty little freeware app from Flying Meat’s boy genius, Gus Mueller. Like it says on FG’s home page: FlyGesture is activated like Expos or Dashboard, bringing up a transparent window of “guides” to move your mouse through. Moving your mouse through the guides lets

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• Patents: Apple's Gesture Dictionary, a Fingering Chart for Multi-Touch

  Published: August 2, 2007, 8:47 am

  Tags: Apple, Gesture Dictionary, Iphone, Multi Touch, Multi Touch Gesture Dictionary, Patents

  this idea: a Multi-Touch Gesture Dictionary that identifies all kinds of finger play you can do on upcoming multi-touch interfaces. It started out with just the expand and contract motions on the iPhone, along with the ability to swipe your finger to get from one picture or graphic to the next. This takes those few gestures into the next

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• Apple patent attack: the multi-touch gesture dictionary

  Published: August 2, 2007, 2:24 pm

  Tags: Apple, Dictionary, Gesture, Multi Touch, Patent, Patent Application, Patentapplication

  which would establish gestures, or "chords" in multi-touch systems. The dictionary would not only provide a guide and somewhat-programmable system of movements, but would also function as an application which runs either on its own or in the background during other applications, allowing gestures to be recognized. It would seem that based

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• Apple brainwashing

  Published: September 10, 2007, 1:22 am

  Tags: Random, Hush, Apple, Guided, Tours, Iphone, Ipod, Touch, Spoken, Psychiatric, Patient, Robots, Instructed, Gesture, Guys, Whispers, Robots I, Notice, Erupt, Violence

  down after a tantrum. Every gesture of these guys whispers, “hush, hush, you’re safe here.” Anyway, you get my point. It’s fucking creepy. The end.

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• Project E helps you communicate, make friends

  Published: September 12, 2007, 11:45 pm

  Tags: Bluetooth, Communication, Communicator, Exo, Gesture, Invention, Prototype, Relationship

  Filed under: Misc. GadgetsWe'll be honest, we see nothing wrong with just phoning someone up and venting your frustrations, but for those looking to insert yet another layer in their relationship, Project E could apparently help. This interesting prototype consists of a web-based backbone (Eco), a central hub (that Exo creature pictured to the

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• Sensoring Converts Hand into Magic Wiimote Measuring the Body's Electric Charge

  Published: October 5, 2007, 8:40 pm

  Tags: Random Stuff, Clips, Games, Gesture Recognition, Sensors

  This is Sensoring, an air joystick that analyzes your body's electric field to transform it into some kind of Wiimote. In this video, the user waves his hand in the air—without any kind of motion detection markers or cameras— to fly a 3D helicopter on the screen Luke Skywalker-style. The sensor measures the distance and angle of the

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• Displays: JVC Introduces The Clapper TV

  Published: October 7, 2007, 5:25 pm

  Tags: Clap, Digital Cameras, Displays, Gadgets, Handclap Amp Gesture Recognition Tv, Home Entertainment, Jvc, Lcd, Remotes, The Clapper, Wireless

  that responds to claps and gestures, or "handclap & gesture recognition TV" as it's officially labeled. Here's a little channel surfing scenario to demonstrate: You clap your hands 3 times to bring up a round menu screen. A set top camera then tracks your hand, transforming it into a cursor. To click a button, the user just hooks their

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• JVC Introduces The Clapper TV

  Published: October 7, 2007, 5:25 pm

  Tags: Screens, Gesture Recognition, Jvc, Screens, Tvs

  In addition to their mean-looking 180Hz LCD, JVC has introduced another display technology in progress at this year's CEATEC. Specifically, it's a TV that responds to claps and gestures, or "handclap & gesture recognition TV" as it's officially labeled. Here's a little channel surfing scenario to demonstrate:

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• Body Language

  Published: October 17, 2007, 6:39 am

  Tags: Body Language, Gesture, Speech, Appearance, Posture

  which is much more renown as gesture, or the way a person speaks for herself in terms of her position which is also presented in the term of posture, or how a person dress herself which speaks for her appearance, or how a person expresses herself when speaking which falls under her speech presentation.Speech may talks about tonation, volume,

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• GestureTek Brings Wiimote-esque Functionality to Phones

  Published: October 24, 2007, 3:26 pm

  Tags: Gadgets, Phones, Gesture Controls, Gesturetek, Phones, Wiimote

  EyeMobile Engine designed by GestureTek, for example. With this new technology, phone users could do things like tilt a phone back and forth to zoom in on a map or move from side to side to scroll around. You can even operate games on your phone in a similar manner as the Wii. Sure, it sounds cool, but with cellphones it seems more like a

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• Snowboard Glove Concept Controls Your iPod via Non-Romantic Gestures

  Published: November 2, 2007, 2:17 pm

  Tags: Gadgets, Clips, Concepts, Gesture Controls, Ipod, Snowboards

  volume with an unintended gesture and blast out our ears. [YouTube]

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• Nokia's Haptikos Technology Makes Physical Keyboards Obsolete, Hopefully

  Published: November 6, 2007, 4:10 am

  Tags: Phones, Gesture Controls, Haptikos, Nokia

  Nokia has been working on a very promising technology, called Haptikos, and it is now coming to fruition after 10 years in the making. The new technology promises a true tactile response for touchscreen text input methods. Though basic vibration methods are currently in place to provide a form of haptic response, Nokia's efforts will literally

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• 3D medical display utilizes gesture-controlled interface

  Published: November 8, 2007, 3:33 pm

  Tags: Cat Scan, Catscan, Fraunhofer, Gesture, Gesture Controlled, Medical, Medical Display, Medicaldisplay, Non Contact, Non Contact Image Control, Non Contactimagecontrol, Stereoscopic

  Filed under: Displays Though not quite as intense as HD surgery, we'd say this thing could still project some pretty startling results. The display shown above, which was developed at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut HHI in Berlin, relies on a pair of cameras mounted overhead and a single one integrated

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• Hamas fires on Fatah Arafat rally - 6 dead - VIDEO

  Published: November 12, 2007, 4:07 pm

  Tags: Abbas, Annapolis, Arab, Arafat, Arresting, Biggest, Black And White, Bloodiest, Carrying, Charges, Commemorating, Conference, Culture, Fatah, Fighting, Flags, Forces, Gaza, Gesture, Government, Gunmen, Hamas, Headdresses, Hours, Hundreds, Intra Palestinian, Isr

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• Sony Ericsson cameraphones could support gesture control

  Published: December 6, 2007, 6:10 pm

  Tags: Gesture, Patent, Patent Application, Patentapplication, Sony, Sony Ericsson, Sonyericsson

  Filed under: Cellphones, Digital Cameras Generally speaking, the cameras that come built in to today's mobiles are less than astounding, but a recent Sony Ericsson patent application could make 'em a bit more worthwhile. The patent describes a scenario where a user could input commands by simply gesturing in front of the lens, and the phone would

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