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IFA 2008: Toshiba Qosmio G50 With Gesture Control

By on August 30, 2008 in Hardware, Windows Media Center

The WGS Prize for the coolest thing seen at IFA today – the new Toshiba Qosmio G50 laptop.

Now generally, I’m not a big fan of desktop replacement laptops – they’re big, heavy, ugly, noisy things that I think everyone, with the exception of students, could do without.

This one is different.

Yep, you still wouldn’t want to take one out on a date, but the G50 comes with a new Gesture Control technology, which allows you to control the computer (including Media Center) simply by waving your fist in the air – the gestures you make are picked up by the G50’s integrated webcam.

g501 thumb1 IFA 2008: Toshiba Qosmio G50 With Gesture Control

g502 thumb1 IFA 2008: Toshiba Qosmio G50 With Gesture Control

You may never use it in anger if you own one of these laptops, but it scores big on the show-off scale. That said, if you are using one, be careful not to get angry in front of the TV – who knows the fist-shaking carnage you could cause!

The video reveals all:

More Info: Toshiba


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  • Al

    Well it’s not anything new per se, I remember when I was deciding which universities offers (for my Software Engineering Degree) to accept back in 1997/98, that Leeds Universities Computer Science department was showing off a gesture recognition application using a camera. IIRC their software, albeit running on Silicon Graphics workstations at the time, would draw an outline around your hand (which at the time I thought was fantastic), and in addition to being usable for controlling the pointer also had the granularity to allow your individual fingers actions to be monitored allowing you to play the piano for example.

  • http://homeserverblogger.com Tom

    Haha…They have Apollo 13 playing :) I love that movie.

  • Milton

    This computer also has Maxx Audio in here. For those who don’t know Maxx Audio is made by Waves. They make the coolest Studio software FX, if you like plying music on your computer – this is the one for you.
    You gotta check this out This stuff is in this computer – they mean bizness
    This is the same company http://www.maxx.com and http://www.waves.com .
    This is some serious sh@#!!!