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January 9, 2014 02:45 am GMT

Mute Your TV With a Simple 'Shhh'

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LAS VEGAS — Imagine if you could mute your TV just by putting one finger to your lips (the international symbol for "shush!") and turn on off appliances by pointing at them

You can. In fact, I did just that at CES this year, thanks to software-based gesture technology from PointGrab

See also: 14 Robotics Breakthroughs From the Past Decade

PointGrab's gesture-driven interfaces are at least as old as the Microsoft Kinect and Leap Motion, but in both cases, specialized hardware is rqeuired to play games and control interfaces. PointGrab's software solution works with standard 2D cameras. In one demonstration, it used a Logitech webcam

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