If you don't mind looking like you are playing Rock, Paper, Scissors with your TV, this new Australian innovation might be just the thing for you. The box uses a camera to recognize simple gestures and passes them on to your remote. The basic functions are covered: Power (on and off), volume and channel switching, although repeating the fist-clenched-thumbs-aloft gesture to move through 50 channels might get old (and give onlookers the wrong idea).
The Australian engineers behind the device, Dr Prashan Premaratne and Quang Nguyen, plan to have units for sale within three years, by which time it should be small enough to lose down the back of the sofa.
Now, seven simple hand gestures to switch your TV on [International Reporter via Engadget]
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