A recent move in desktop hardware is seeing a major sea change in the way commands are input into the devices. Where previously, the common desktop mouse was an indispensable part of our everyday computing tasks, the mouse is becoming as much a reviled nuisance as its vermin namesake thanks to a growing line of hand-gesture technologies that are stepping up to take its place.
The concept of hand-gesture technology as a control vector for desktop PCs has been a long time in coming, and has been seen throughout a variety of science fiction films. But this particular slice of science fiction is rapidly becoming science fact. While touchscreen technology is downright commonplace any more, the idea of gestures to do everything that the common mouse could do really only recently started gaining ground.
For those not already familiar with the video game market, recently Microsoft unveiled a controller for its popular Xbox 360 line of gaming systems known as the Kinect. While this was originally meant as a method for controlling the actions of figures in games, the other possibilities became rapidly evident. First, a variety of so-called "Kinect hacks" emerged, in which people were using the device for a variety of different purposes totally unrelated to gaming. Then, at the most recent E3 event, Microsoft (News 
- Alert) unveiled a strategy by which Kinect's motion controls were not only used for gaming, but also as the centerpiece of controlling Xbox 360's media capabilities via a combination of voice controls and gestures... Read More
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