Fujitsu launches a line of gesture control laptops

JAPANESE COMPUTER MANUFACTURER Fujitsu has unveiled a line of notebooks that have gesture control technology.

Fujitsu's gesture control capability was captured going through the motions on video by Tokyo's Akihabara news.

According to the report, Fujitsu's Lifebook AH series of notebooks will include the gesture control feature. An embedded camera in the notebook picks up your hand movements and Fujitsu has engineered some rudimentary media playback controls that can be manipulated with gestures, sort of like Tom Cruise in the film Minority Report.

The video shows four controls for Windows media centre with stop, play, rewind and forward icons. There's also a small window that shows the laptop pick up the user's hand gestures.

The AH Series has a 15.6-inch screen with 1366x768 resolution and either an Intel Core i5-450M or Core i3-350M chip with 4GB of RAM. The notebooks are also available with an AMD Athlon II M340 processor.

There's no mention of price, a UK release, or, well, why you really need this. However Fujitsu does like running tech demos just for the sake of it. Back in May, Fujitsu was caught demoing 3D video-chat for no apparent reason.

Earlier today we reported that coders have developed gesture control for smartphones. So perhaps this sort of thing is catching on. µ