SAN FRANCISCO: The prototype looks like a giant rectangular wristwatch. But it doesn’t tell the time: It lets you control a computer from across the room simply by moving your hand. With a gentle turn ...

A new study from Meta researchers reveals the "Control Shift" wristband, which is a new type of wearable that allows users to control computers using gestures and other types of hand movement. The ...

Researchers at Meta have developed a wristwatch-style tool that can interact with devices using hand gestures — or even a thought. As the company detailed in a blog post, the Bluetooth device lets ...

The research paper, published in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, leverage a custom convolutional neural network (CNN) to extract both local and global features for classifying hand gestures, by ...

If you're tired of using a boring ol' remote for controlling your devices, you might like the CenWatch. It's a smartwatch that scans the underside of your hand, allowing you to make multiple commands ...

Nearly two decades after its release, “Minority Report” still seems to be as prescient as the film’s eerie crime-fighting “precogs,” offering a clarifying vision of the future that continues to ...

Finnish startup Doublepoint launched its free app, WowMouse, for the Apple Watch this week at CES 2025. The app uses the wearable’s sensors, compass, and accelerometer to turn your hand into a mouse ...