GESTURE RECOGNITION COMING TO SNAPDRAGON CHIPS

Qualcomm announced that it has purchased gesture recognition technology from GestureTek on Monday. “Applications processors are enabling a range of new ways for consumers to interface with their home entertainment and mobile devices,” said Qualcomm executive vice president and group president Steve Mollenkopf. “Our acquisition of key technology and assets from GestureTek will strengthen Qualcomm’s smartphone product portfolio and enable our customers to launch products with new and compelling user experiences.”

The company said that it plans to build GestureTek’s gesture recognition technology into its current and future Snapdragon processors. The tech will allow manufacturers to create mobile devices with interactive user interfaces based on “natural human gestures.”

PERFECT BROWSER NOW THE PERFECT BROWSER ON iPAD

The Perfect browser completely changes the iOS browsing experience, bringing tabbed browsing, user agent control, touch screen gestures, and hyper fast scrolling to your fingertips.

Perfect browser is one of the most feature-filled ones out there, adding features you probably miss from desktop browsing, like tabs, hyper or automated scrolling, session saving, popup blocking, and more. What's even better, is that it also adds features designed to compliment the iPad's touch screen (like a wide range of gestures that cycle through your tabs, browser history, and even toggle a fullscreen mode). On top of all that is a handy user agent switcher, for those times when your device refuses to cooperate and show you the desktop version of a web page.

The Perfect browser can be yours for the low price of $2.99 for the iPad and $0.99 for the iPhone or iPod Touch. [Gizmodo]

KINECT HACK ALLOWS WEB BROWSER AND WINDOWS 7 CONTROL BY GESTURES

The hacks for Microsoft's Xbox 360 Kinect just keep getting better. MIT's Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group has hacked the Kinect to allow users to control web browsers and Windows 7 using only gestures.

The MIT group used DepthJS, a system that makes Javascript talk to Microsoft's Kinect in order to navigate web pages, among other things. It's not that making wild, arm-waving gestures is the best way to navigate a web site, it's just a demonstration that you can and advances the technology. Hopefully the group, or other hackers, can take this advance and evolving it into a multitouch remote control plugin for our home theater PCs. [Engadget]