What do you think of a hand-signal TV remote control?

Imagine the fun little kids would have.

It could be good for the some disabled people. The set up may need to be changed per condition. Could you emagine never having to search for the remote again? What would we do with the extra time.

But I could see a problem with "what ifs"
Two people fighting over what to watch
mistaken hand gestures
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ugh, Im still getting use to using my hands to change menus on my Xbox Kinect.

NOT NECESSARY!!

gee ya could be sitting in front of the tv talkin away with someone, using ya hands like pple do then the tv will be doing all sorts...lmao

It would also be funny if a sleep walker had a television in the bedroom and was suddenly awakened by it when the volumn was turned up all the way during a scary movie because he/she was making the right hand signs. I would love to see what the television does when a bunch of people who express themselves with their hands a lot are getting together in the family room. Hope there is not a game on because someone might get irate if they miss a play because of the slip of a hand.
It would even be more hilarious in the nursing home. I can just see those little old men and women sitting there watching Jerry Springer or the Price is Right, when suddenly, with the inadvertant wave of a hand, the show turns to the home shopping network and some of them will be sitting there scratching their heads while others start ranting about losing their show. Make no mistake about it some of those guys really like their television shows and some of them can really pack a wallop when they get angry, especially during Jerry Springer. LOL

Why wave your hand when you can push one button on a remote that's beside you ..?

I like the idea because I swear sometimes the remote grows legs and walks off and when the phone rings it would be nice to just wave my hand to turn off or mute the television. I also have a problem with remotes since I only need glasses to read, so I don't always have them beside me and do you realize how small the mute button is on some remotes. LOL
My daughter has one like this

That souds like an analogy. Pushing button's to get what you want. LOL

cool! i hate looking for the remote

at first i wanted one but mom says it won't work at our house because we talk w/our hands.

I can see this being a good source of harassment...one of the kids walk into the room and change the channel on the other one! It's already bad enough that they hide the remote from each other! LOL

Yeah, I can see the kids having problems but I can see my mom being able to change the channels without having to get up to take the remote from my father's hands while he is asleep. She'll be able to stay comfy and he'll sleep better.
We've all told him we are going to bury him with the remote when the time comes or he will never rest in peace. He told us he wants to be cremated so we told him we'll be sure to put a remote in the urn with him.

I don't care. I'm fine with using that little remote too.

This actually might work very well! I don't know enough about it though.

Unless if it's super easy hand gestures, I don't see human race adapt to using hand signals as remotes to control devices...

Universal remotes, especially with LCD screens, already took care having the problem of too many remotes..It's easy to use once you have it set up, and was never a problem for me to get any devices to do what I intend for them to do.

It's like the Wii- at the end of the day when your neighbour walks past your window, you're a freak waving your arms around...

Just something to make us lazier then we are.

Efficiency is just a highly developed form of laziness...

Being from a family who talk with their hands our TV would go bananas and probably explode. We are a very animated family.

saves people from looking for remotes but how inconvenience is it when you are like doing jumping jacks and the channel keeps changing on you

I'm not a fan of unnecessary technology. This is no exception.

gawdamn, sounds like too much work!

I like it, but why not a voice activated remote?

sounds awesome/!!

sounds like one of the greatest thing ever for men!! lol
no more having to reach or look for the remote! ha

But what happens if I am watching something and get really worked up, for good or bad, and make a gesture that the camera reads as "switch the channel" or something like that which I do not want? It could get a bit out of control.

sounds cool,we wouldn't have to buy batteries anymore.

What if you are an animated talker? Some of us use our hands a lot! Although, it would be nice not to have to worry about losing the pesky remote all the time.

Now if I could only make it work on crying children.

Hadn't even heard of it. I kinda want to say wow, but......shrugs. Maybe I'm getting apathetic with having so much technology thrown at us. But I'll do like I laways do and wait til it comes about before getting excited

I think it is an interesting first step towards what could be some pretty powerful and useful technology down the road. In it's first implementation, though, my guess is that it will be more trouble than it's worth...

They will need a lot more than 7 commands to make a remote usable. I also see people on the couch sending conflicting hand signals when they disagree over what to watch.

Really I don't like it because us guys need to have a physical remote in their hands at all times or we just feel 'naked' without our power tool.

lol - what is it with guys and remos?

mamma: mine! gimme!

No thanks, already had enough of the "clapper".
Worked as long as the first sports event was broadcasted, and my friends use to applaud to some good sports action ...
Unnecessary telling you that the tv set was connected to the "clapper" !

I talk too much with my hands and would probably cause more malfuntions than not.

It's not for me, but for some people like my grandpa, He sometimes forget where he puts the remote. So as long as it is easy to learn the signals. This way would be better.

Maybe and maybe not. Short term memory and all. LOL I know my Mom would forget the signals shortly after we showed them to her no matter how often we showed her.

While the idea sounds great on the surface, is this simply another "Big Brother" deal? Can it not be tapped into, and allow someone or some agency see exactly what you are doing inside your home? Technology is terrific, but I think sometimes we are allowing our privacy to be eroded.