The Rise of Gesture Control

Gesture (and voice) control continue to grow stature.  The market remains nascent, but things like Google Voice (previously Grand Central), Siri, and Kinect for Xbox are allowing the technologies to improve exponentially and will enable them to move quickly into the mass market. Last month saw the launch of the first Kinect-compatible commercial.

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