Koreans get touchless gesture-controlled Android phone Pantech, Korea's third handset manufacturer, has taken the jump into gesture-based recognition with its latest handset, which incorporates technology from eyeSight. What that means is that users can answer a call, navigate though images and generally interact with the handset using nothing more than a flick of the wrist, even …
A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wave bands for news of himself. The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive--you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program.
Douglas Adams had a great quote about TV controls going (in the days before remote-controls) from buttons to touch pads to (paraphrasing) "waving your hands to control it, with the unfortunate side-effect of having to sit infuriatingly still lest you accidentally change channels in the middle of a program". Unfortunately my google-foo is weak today, and I can't find it.
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