Minority Report: Gestural Interface for TV sets from Canesta

In January of this year Canesta partnered with Hitachi to produce the worlds first gesturally controlled TV set.

At GraphicsforTV on Youtube, there are interesting videos about Canestas user interfaces, including a live video of the Hitachi set being demonstrated.

Plenty of technical information is available and Canesta look set with a pool of nearly 40 patents granted to dominate this area of the business.

I'm unconvinced by some of the demos and increasing the volume is a laborious function in the video. However, the tech is so cool and so waiting to happen, it just can't be ignored and there is an intersting case study for TV available.