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MIT Girl From Goa Develops Touchfree Gesture Tech For Smartphones

If it takes off well, this invention could make the touchscreen input method obsolete.

 

You may soon not have to touch your phone to communicate with it. An invention by Andrea Colaco, a Goa girl who is a Ph.D student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), seems to be promising enough to make such a bold statement. Colaco, along with her team of students known as 3Dim Tech, has come up with a novel way of communicating with a smartphone using gestures that are sensed by the front camera to achieve all the tasks that you would associate with the handset.

Colaco and her team used the MIT $100K entrepreneurship competition prize that they won to seed their project. The 3Dim Tech team consists of academics who are innovators in signal processing, human-computer interface design, and hardware systems. The said invention is said to be able to recognise gesture control with high precision and it is said to work with the plain front camera, thus requiring no additional hardware modification. The company is already in talks with top 5 mobile handset manufacturers of the world to incorporate the product in their upcoming handsets.

From the video, it seems to work on the iPhone, although there is no reason why it shouldn't be able to work with other mobile platforms if apps for the same are released. However, the best way for it to work is if this feature is built into the OS from the ground up, when it will be able to work seamlessly. If it does work well, then this has the potential to make the touchscreen input method obsolete. Check out the video below to learn how this technology works.



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