GestureTek: A New Mobile Movement

From BusinessWeek Online -- Technology:

Thanks to the iPhone, Americans are going ga-ga over playing mobile games using the phone's accelerometer. Interestingly, the Japanese might have gone through that phase already. I recently talked with Ed Fowler, director of business development at a company called GestureTek, which puts Wii-like capabilities into mobile phones. The company's software allows a camera-enabled device to recognize gestures. Using this technology, Japanese consumers can already flick their phone to the right to scroll through digital menus. And, come early 2009, customers of Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo will be able to open and close their fingers to zoom in or out of images and maps displayed on their phones.

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