Teach your phone sign language

BACK AT MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS, in March, INQ hackette Sylvie Barak came across an old friend on the Texas Instruments stand.

Yael Talmor, alliances director at Eyesight , an Israeli company now based in London, was demoing mobile phone technology that uses the phone cam image processing software to get a handset to understand hand gestures.

Turns out that Yael was Sylvie's commanding officer in the Israeli army. These (below) don't look like our usual idea of grunts in you ask us!!

Anyhow, watch the video to see Sylves get an explanation about eyesight’s core technology, based on machine vision algorithms, using nothing but the phone’s cam and some dismissive Israeli gestures to control it. µ