When people talk face to face, they don’t rely on words alone. They move their hands, raise their eyebrows, or nod to help express what they mean. These gestures often carry meaning and help listeners ...

Finnish startup Doublepoint launched its free app, WowMouse, for the Apple Watch this week at CES 2025. The app uses the wearable’s sensors, compass, and accelerometer to turn your hand into a mouse ...

Researchers at Meta have developed a wristwatch-style tool that can interact with devices using hand gestures — or even a thought. As the company detailed in a blog post, the Bluetooth device lets ...

When you write your name in the air, you can see the letters appear on your smartphone. By Cade Metz Reporting from San Francisco The prototype looks like a giant rectangular wristwatch. But it ...

The United States Trademark and Patent Office (USPTO) has today approved a new patent application from Apple which is related to custom hand gestures for head-mounted devices. The head-mounted devices ...

Apple Vision Pro introduced new ways of controlling apps through gestures, but it appears that Apple wants to extend that to controlling any device it makes. Before the Apple Vision Pro, if you ...

After missing out on last month’s Feature Drop, Google is rolling out a sizable Pixel Watch 4 update this December that adds one-handed gestures. Joining Raise to Talk (which is getting a new ...

Words matter—but your hands might matter more, according to a new UBC study which found that purposeful hand gestures can make speakers appear more competent and persuasive. The team also ran ...

When people use hand gestures that visually represent what they’re saying, listeners see them as more clear, competent and persuasive. That’s the key finding from my new research published in the ...

Hand movements are often treated as a nervous tic to be suppressed, but a growing body of research suggests they are one of the most powerful tools a speaker has. Across lab experiments, large-scale ...