back to article Text input from thin air: boffins give Wi-Fi the finger with AI

Chinese boffins reckon they're the first capture text input to mobile devices using gestures sensed by commodity Wi-Fi devices. The researchers, from the University of Science and Technology in China, have dubbed the scheme WiFinger, and describe it here. At this stage, what the researchers achieved was to sense movement …

  1. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    Another step toward Minority Report-style computers

    Now could someone tell me who exactly wants to manage a computer by gesture ? All day long ?

    I sure as hell don't.

  2. Mage Silver badge

    Daft

    It's not going to get much better.

    It's in the realms of a toy.

    A camera is far better.

    -- Assuming you want gesture control at all.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Daft

      No, its obviously for Italians who cannot talk without waving their arms around. No camera could possibly track that.

      Anon I work with some Italians.

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