Use Universal Gesture Control From Any Room In Your House

Wave your hand to change the music. The music in the other room. Imagine the Kinect. Now imagine you can use gestures like you'd use with the Kinect to control anything--appliances, lights, gadgets, whatever. Now imagine you can do all of that from a different room entirely. WiSee (pronounced "we see") is a project from a team of University of Washington computer scientists to do just that, using the Wi-Fi signals your house already has. The Kinect works by bouncing infrared light off of what it...