There's a
Kinect-based remote control for the
Boxee media centre. Douglas Adams predicted this over 30 years ago in
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive -- you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program.
