The WGS Prize for the coolest thing seen at IFA today – the new Toshiba Qosmio G50 laptop.
Now generally, I’m not a big fan of desktop replacement laptops – they’re big, heavy, ugly, noisy things that I think everyone, with the exception of students, could do without.
This one is different.
Yep, you still wouldn’t want to take one out on a date, but the G50 comes with a new Gesture Control technology, which allows you to control the computer (including Media Center) simply by waving your fist in the air – the gestures you make are picked up by the G50’s integrated webcam.
You may never use it in anger if you own one of these laptops, but it scores big on the show-off scale. That said, if you are using one, be careful not to get angry in front of the TV - who knows the fist-shaking carnage you could cause!
The video reveals all:
More Info: Toshiba
August 30th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
Well it’s not anything new per se, I remember when I was deciding which universities offers (for my Software Engineering Degree) to accept back in 1997/98, that Leeds Universities Computer Science department was showing off a gesture recognition application using a camera. IIRC their software, albeit running on Silicon Graphics workstations at the time, would draw an outline around your hand (which at the time I thought was fantastic), and in addition to being usable for controlling the pointer also had the granularity to allow your individual fingers actions to be monitored allowing you to play the piano for example.
August 31st, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Haha…They have Apollo 13 playing
I love that movie.