Innovative Technology: Hand Gesture system

The new system (Gestix) was developed by researchers from Ben Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), and is designed to enable doctors in the operating room to change digital images with a hand movement, rather than by touching a screen, keyboard or mouse - all of which compromise sterility and could spread infection.

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[yoavfld]

The image enlargement by twisting the hand is not a very good Idea

And your Algorithm is too simple

but still a nice work for starters.

[jgarbuz]

it is precisely to keep the surgeon's hands free, and not encumbered by controllers and the like, that makes this system potentially useful,if it is perfected.

At any rate, Israel's strength is in the R&D of specialized small and medium sized medical and military subsystems, and not applications for cheap mass produced consumer items.The latter is best left to the Asian countries with large internal consumer markets and low wage labor forces.

[tricky1025]

I'm much more impressed by the Nintendo Wii. This is just not very suitable for the job! It would be easier and much more effective to use a simpler application. Making a doctor more frustrated with some motion sensor during a particularly tricky, life-saving operation is just trying to look smart. Can anyone say 'inferiority complex'! I'd prefer to see hand-motion control perfected for enetrtainment purposes first before entertaining any thoughts of a medical application. This is just posing!

[rakkav]

Yes, especially since there are such literal-minded people like me out there. :)

(Believe it or not, behind my serious exterior there's a total screwball trying to get out -- ask my closest friends -- and usually I keep him in heavy chains for my sake and everyone else's.)

[ashmueli]

I should always remember to put a smiley face after I type a joke.

[teamim]

That "annoying beeping" is probably some other device, almost certainly one monitoring heartbeat. If it goes into an "annoying flat tone", then the patient's heart has stopped. If it goes silent, then the patient has been given up for dead. Be careful what you wish for -- you might get it! :)

[ashmueli]

Sure, but can they do it without the annoying beeping?

[morehn]

omg, these zionists...

too hot to handle i guess.

amazing.

[barakooda]

Nice!