Meet the World’s First Gesture Control TV Box

You’ve misplaced your remote before and have felt too lazy to get up in search of it. What if you could simply switch channels with a wave of your hand? eyeSight Mobile Technologies has teamed up with Innodigital to create the nTobeBox, a set-top box that allows you to interact with your TV in an entirely hands-on/gadget-free way.
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The nTobeBox, running on Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich OS, turns any ordinary TV into a SmartTV that goes past conventional televised broadcast viewing, but allows for streaming content, apps, video calls, Internet connectivity and intuitive hand gesture recognition.

 Where Sonic Screwdriver is your New TV Remote eye Sight’s technology allows “users comprehensive control over every aspect of Innodigital’s set-top box,” the company said in a press release.

Both hand gestures and hand tracking enable virtual mouse control, yielding full control over the TV as if one were using a hand held remote.

In the coming years, Innodigital is seeking to work with TV providers to package the box with a digital television subscription. 

Source: Mashable