Today the touch screen technology is on tablets and smartphones. Soon the most modern devices could be touchless.

Have you ever desired a remote control that works for everything? Since the 80’s, when this important tool became popular, it was instantly easier to turn on or turn off the TV. You didn’t need to leave the couch to change the channel anymore.

Why can’t we have this kind of stuff for other important daily activities, such as turning on or off the lights without leaving the bed? There are many reasons for that – including that we need to do some exercise, of course – but maybe the most important of all is that we cannot have too many remote controls because we would lose most of them.

If remote controls keep going to a secret place where we can’t find them, the solution is tocreate a new tool to give orders to our machines even when we are far away from them. XTR3D, an Israeli corporation specializing in gesture control development, created a method that will allow us to change channels or turn off the TV with simple gestures.  All you have to do is move your palms towards the television.

The system doesn’t require any kind of high-tech technology installed in our bodies, it’s just necessary to install gesture recognition software in the TV.  This will make the machine read our movements, understand what we are ordering and then do it.

This kind of gesture recognition technology isn’t new. Wii and Xbox 360, video game consoles released 5 years ago by Nintendo and Microsoft, respectively, are probably the best known example of this technology applied on daily life.  The user can play video games far from the television, and the game can recognize and detect movements that players are doing.

According to the BBC, the Israeli corporation is now trying to advance in the gesture recognition field, developing a way to apply this technology to build touch-less smartphones. XTR3D’s goal is to have this kind of devices available in the market within the next year, improving, for example, the use of a GPS system installed inside a smartphone. Today a driver needs to touch the screen, and this can be a dangerous action to do behind the wheel.  Big companies are interested in this technology – some multinational corporations invested $8 million in the project, says BBC. It seems that the touch screen technology, today synonymous with modernity, can soon be mainstream.

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