The mobile application development arena has always adhered to the paradigm of designing and developing innovative solutions that are unique and always push the limits of capabilities of existing cellular handsets to get more out of them. The offshore mobile application development communities have also been in the news for conceiving solutions that have taken the wireless application development arena by storm.

The latest in the mobile application development offering spree is the gesture control technology which allows users to use hand gestures to communicate with their phones. A prototype is already being assembled which replaces the traditional interface with a touch screen or keyboard or any other input device with a complete physical contact free interface. A small video recorder wired to a microprocessor is attached to the user’s attire which captures and analyzes their hand gestures to sketch an outline of each gesture and transfers it to a computer display. The very idea of being able to sketch free wheeling shapes in the air and see the same being inked on the cellular interface is in itself scintillatingly amazing. Right now the prototype resembles a large brooch but with the passage of time and with advancements in the field of nano-electronics and mobile application development, components will shrink further in size reducing the size of this system. This concept of interacting with intelligent devices through hand gestures is not something new as it has been used in various gaming consoles and other applications. This system outstrips other systems as no setup efforts are required and no additional accessories mess up the whole freedom of using the virtual interface. A paper about this is due to be presented in October at the symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.

The whole concept of gesture control is extremely alluring as the elimination of an interface is the ultimate in terms of negating physical contact with a device. This should herald a new age in the field of mobile application development and wireless application development and we are sure to see a spree of applications leveraging this technology being conceived by offshore mobile application development communities.