New gesture-recognition tech AllSee does gesture control without a camera

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could skip to the next track without taking your phone out of your pocket—or without touching anything at all? Or if you could adjust the thermostat with the flick of a wrist? You may soon be able to thanks to new gesture-recognition technology. It doesn’t even require batteries! The new system, developed by University of Washington computer scientists, is called AllSee, and it is awesome. “This is the first gesture recognition system that can be implemented for less than a dollar and doesn’t require a battery,” said Shyam Gollakota, a UW professor who worked on the project. “You can leverage TV signals both as a source of power and as a source of gesture recognition.”