https://phys.org/ en-us Phys.org internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. A company founded by a pair of Simon Fraser University alumni has been chosen to fast-track the deployment of its product—a gesture recognition wristband, the next frontier in human-machine interactions—under the mentorship of Techstars, one of North America's biggest startup accelerators. https://phys.org/news/2018-02-gesture-recognition-device-fast-track-company.html Engineering Thu, 08 Feb 2018 03:09:45 EST news437281736 Infineon Technologies AG has launched an ultra-high ±5cm resolution, miniature MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) pressure sensor for use in mobile and wearable gadgets and IoT (Internet of Things) devices. The DPS310 is a low-power digital barometric pressure sensor that enables the development of new and enhanced navigation, location, well-being, gesture recognition and weather monitoring applications. https://phys.org/news/2015-02-low-power-barometric-pressure-sensor-mobile.html Engineering Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:25:58 EST news344251548 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 for electronics could soon become an alternative to touchscreens and sensing technologies that consume a lot of power and only work when users can see their smartphones and tablets. https://phys.org/news/2014-02-battery-free-technology-gesture-recognition-devices.html Hi Tech & Innovation Thu, 27 Feb 2014 13:00:02 EST news312727403 (Phys.org) —A group of research engineers at the University of California has been working on new technology to allow electronic devices to recognize hand gestures, similar to Microsoft's Kinect—with a major difference. Instead of using light, the new technology is based on sound waves. The group is currently forming a spinoff company to develop and market the technology, called Chirp Microsystems (the technology itself is called simply Chirp). https://phys.org/news/2013-11-spinoff-ultrasonic-gesture-recognition-small.html Hi Tech & Innovation Fri, 01 Nov 2013 10:20:01 EDT news302518247 (Phys.org) —What would Intel do with a company focused on motion sensing technology? A number of ideas circle around the announcement this week that Intel has bought Israel-based Omek Interactive. An Intel spokesperson in Israel said the deal would raise Intel's capabilities in immersive "perceptual computing" experiences. https://phys.org/news/2013-07-intel-multimillion-baby-omek-motion.html Hardware Wed, 17 Jul 2013 05:30:02 EDT news293249939 (Phys.org) —Google this year has made it clear that it wants to see a different computer using landscape with techniques that are easier, more reliable than hand-typed passwords for user authentication. Speaking at a security conference in San Francisco earlier this year, principal engineer, Mayank Upadhyay affirmed Google's interest for a time when password obligations are replaced with more secure authentication tokens. While solutions proposed by Google have been in the physical area of hardware such as finger rings or USB sticks or keys, a patent application revealed this week shows how Google is thinking about Android-type authentication through making funny faces. According to the filing, authentication via funny face can be used to unlock the phone. The patent suggests facial expressions as the next frontier of password456%. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-google-ideas-funny-face-device-authentication.html Hi Tech & Innovation Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:50:43 EDT news289932630 (Phys.org) —Forget to turn off the lights before leaving the apartment? No problem. Just raise your hand, finger-swipe the air, and your lights will power down. Want to change the song playing on your music system in the other room? Move your hand to the right and flip through the songs. https://phys.org/news/2013-06-wi-fi-enable-gesture-recognition-entire.html Hi Tech & Innovation Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:43:13 EDT news289590178 (Phys.org) —Beyond reading body motions, Kinect is getting a workup by researchers at Microsoft, now showing substantial control additions. Microsoft Research this week showed how Microsoft Kinect for Windows may be used for picking up enhanced hand gestures. At this week's TechFest, the annual event revealing what Microsoft Research teams are up to, the Kinect capability for hand gesture recognition was unveiled. The presentation showed how Kinect for Windows allows more refined gestures that can translate on the computer screen as pinching, zooming, and panning around. https://phys.org/news/2013-03-microsoft-ripens-kinect.html Hardware Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:00:01 EST news281899891 (Phys.org)—Intel wants you to know that voice, face and gesture control will become a familiar feature in computers. The time for a new kind of notebook world is now, for Intel, and computing facets including touch, voice, and visual are seated under Intel's umbrella term, Perceptual Computing. Intel is promoting this idea as the way people will interact with their computers, and the accent is on the word interact. The keyboard and mouse retreat in the background yielding to gestures and face and speech recognition. https://phys.org/news/2013-01-intel-perceptual-neo-desktop-era.html Hi Tech & Innovation Mon, 14 Jan 2013 05:32:27 EST news277363918 Chinese high-tech companies have showcased some of the most eye-popping gear at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week, bidding to reverse their lack of global brand recognition. https://phys.org/news/2013-01-chinese-tech-firms-volume-ces.html Consumer & Gadgets Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:02:17 EST news277142529 In the not-so-distant future, couch potatoes will be waving, pointing, swiping and tapping to make their TVs react, kind of like what Tom Cruise did in the 2002 movie "Minority Report." That's the vision of TV manufacturers as they show off "smart TVs" at the International CES in Las Vegas. https://phys.org/news/2013-01-smart-tvs-smarter-bit.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:46:12 EST news276889559 (Phys.org)—Microchip Technology has been working in the "non-contact user interface" space, which is translating into gesture control over your next computing device. The company is using electrical fields to sense hand movements. They have announced a controller that transmits an electrical signal and calculates the three-coordinate position of a hand based on the disturbances to the field the hand creates. Chandler, Arizona, based Microchip Technology, in looking at electrical fields to sense hand movements, issued this week's announcement of "the world's first electrical field based 3-D gesture controller, the MGC3130." The new controller offers low-power, hand position tracking with gesture recognition. Its two promoted advantages are low cost and low power. https://phys.org/news/2012-11-interface-electrical-fields-mgc3130-video.html Hi Tech & Innovation Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:30:05 EST news272127808 Mobile phone-maker Motorola said Wednesday it had purchased facial recognition firm Viewdle for an undisclosed amount. https://phys.org/news/2012-10-motorola-face-recognition-firm-viewdle.html Business Thu, 04 Oct 2012 04:38:29 EDT news268544303 (Phys.org) -- Hanson Robotics is showing its new humanoid robot boy that belongs in its Robokind portfolio of robots, a 2012 reincarnation of its earlier cartoonlike Zeno boy but this time more humanoid with an array of gestures and eye movements. Made in China, the boy-like robot stands 27 inches tall. The most commanding feature of the new Zeno is its head, made out of what creator David Hanson calls Frubber. The material, as the word sound suggests in melding flesh with rubber, is a spongy, structured elastic polymer that can mimic facial movements, contracting and folding like human skin. The material is also described as biomimetic polymer. https://phys.org/news/2012-08-zeno-boy-robot-video.html Robotics Sat, 04 Aug 2012 13:20:24 EDT news263305211 New intelligent algorithms could help robots to quickly recognize and respond to human gestures. Researchers at A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research in Singapore have created a computer program which recognises human gestures quickly and accurately, and requires very little training. https://phys.org/news/2012-05-robotics-gesturing.html Robotics Thu, 24 May 2012 09:50:06 EDT news257068765 Inspired by the work of psychologists who study the human face for clues that someone is telling a high-stakes lie, UB computer scientists are exploring whether machines can also read the visual cues that give away deceit. https://phys.org/news/2012-03-machine-youre-lying.html Computer Sciences Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:52:48 EDT news251981558 The remote control has never been much beloved. If it's not getting lost or running out of batteries, the device - and its inscrutable buttons - is confusing some family member or acting as a totem in an argument about what to watch. https://phys.org/news/2012-01-remote-gesture-sensitive-devices.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:10:43 EST news246733830 Control your television with your voice or a wave of the hand. Run your laptop with your eyes. https://phys.org/news/2012-01-user-interface-revolution-tvs.html Hi Tech & Innovation Thu, 12 Jan 2012 07:30:02 EST news245575263 Microsoft plans to bring its Kinect technology to bear on personal computers following its phenomenal success with the gesture and voice-recognition sensor in the Xbox 360 game console. https://phys.org/news/2012-01-microsoft-kinect-windows-pcs.html Software Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:40:01 EST news245394430 (PhysOrg.com) -- A smartphone that can be controlled touch-free with a wave of the hand in the air is due for the Korean market this month. South Korean mobile phone manufacturers Pantech yesterday announced the launch of a high end smartphone with gesture-recognition technology developed by eyeSight Mobile Technologies. Video demos circulating over the Internet suggest the new smartphone will not only be seen by gadget-hungry buyers as cool but by many phone users as useful. https://phys.org/news/2011-11-pantech-vega-lte-smartphone-video.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 02 Nov 2011 06:01:27 EDT news239432457 (PhysOrg.com) -- Going to the dentist is something that we all have to do. Going to a novice dentist, and his or her drill, is something that most of us would rather avoid but they have to practice somewhere. Luckily for us researchers at Showa, a Japanese university, have been working on a solution to this thorny issue. They have created a robot, the Showa Hanako 2 that is able to not only mimic the kind of movement and gestures that a dentist may experience in the real world. https://phys.org/news/2011-06-showa-hanako-realistic-robot-novice.html Robotics Thu, 30 Jun 2011 13:47:26 EDT news228660427 Microsoft on Monday added YouTube, voice commands, television shows and more to its Xbox 360 with Kinect as the hot-selling videogame console matures into an entertainment center for all. https://phys.org/news/2011-06-xbox-kinect-e3.html Consumer & Gadgets Tue, 07 Jun 2011 05:10:01 EDT news226640545 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have developed software that can track a Lycra fabric glove with a special color pattern. Using only a cheap web camera equipped with a wide angle lens, the software can track hand gestures. https://phys.org/news/2010-09-gestural-hand-tracking-interface-mit-video.html Hi Tech & Innovation Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:58:22 EDT news203687876 At dusk, a car stops at a checkpoint in Afghanistan. It is a tense moment for all. Because an interpreter is not available, U.S. Marines use hand gestures to ask the driver to step out of the car and open the trunk and hood for inspection. There's a lot of room for error. https://phys.org/news/2010-07-language-barrier-nist-devices-troops.html Computer Sciences Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:45:00 EDT news199719879 (PhysOrg.com) -- Mouseless is a computer mouse that allows you to interact with a computer with a mouse in the same way as usual - except that there is no mouse hardware. The researchers call it an "invisible mouse." https://phys.org/news/2010-07-mouseless-invisible-mouse-video.html Engineering Thu, 08 Jul 2010 07:29:00 EDT news197792915 Touchscreens are so yesterday. Remote controls? So last century. The future is controlling your devices with a simple wave of the hand. https://phys.org/news/2009-12-tv.html Consumer & Gadgets Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:10:04 EST news180766475