Ever since Nintendo’s Wii, gesture and motion control have, more or less, gotten a bad rap. Microsoft’s Kinect didn’t help the matter, as users soon realized that it requires much less effort to press a button on a controller than it does to wildly wave your arm in the air. Microsoft Research has seemingly learned from its past, and has developed a device that aims to make gesture control require much less effort.
Though the only information the public currently has about smartwatches is that various big-name companies are rumored to be developing some, other outlets are already looking to fix perceived problems the devices may have. Most notably, if a watch-sized screen that sits on your wrist will act like a smartphone, how in the world will you be able to precisely poke at letters when typing? This is perhaps the biggest impediment to the success of the smartwatch, but a team at Carnegie Mellon has already developed one possible solution.
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