Touch free mobile technology developed by an Indian woman

Touch free mobile technology developed by an Indian woman

Touch-free, or gesture recognition, technology is something that mobile phone manufacturers are targeting as the next cool feature in smartphones. It is something that they are trying to develop and implement for years.

Now, the industry appears to advance a step further in making such technology a reality, thanks to the research of Andrea Colaco and her co-partner Ahmed Kirmani. Goan native Colaco and Kirmani won the Massachusetts Institute Technology's (MIT) entrepreneurship competition with their touch-free mobile technology called "3dim"--which provides real-time, millimeter-accurate 3D gesture sensing by employing patented signal processing methods.

They won US$100,000 in funds and will use it to develop the technology with mobile manufacturers which had expressed an interest.

This innovation would obviously eliminate the need to use a keyboard or touch screen for many tasks, as gestures could be programmed into mobile devices to recognize the pattern and then execute the command.

One of the greatest features for touch-free technology will be the elimination of multiple windows to run several applications since, with a gesture, users can move seamlessly from one application to another.

Gesture recognition will also opens up new ways in the gaming industry also.