Microsoft devices turn the body into a wireless computer controller

The advent of multi-touch screens and novel gaming interfaces means that the days of the traditional mouse and keyboard are well and truly numbered. With two new technologies, Humantenna and SoundWave, you won’t even have to touch a computer to control it: Gesturing in its direction will be enough.

These are the latest offerings from Microsoft, which also gave us the Kinect controller for Xbox 360. But the Kinect hardware looks clunky next to the Humantenna and SoundWave setups, which their inventors say could be built into a watch or a laptop.

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