NPointer: Use your hand or head to control the computer

Posted by Unknown Sunday, September 2, 2012

We all want to find interesting ways to use your computer. Some of us like to keep everything as conventional as possible-except for the operating-system modifications, others like the hardware that everything changes and others like the combination with the software. If you like the last two and want to use your computer without a mouse, you can try Npointer, a tool that uses your hand or head to control the mouse cursor via webcam.

While there is an industry that happens to sell hundreds of dollars mice based on the technology they have to give up more dpi, more responsive, flexible steps, support for right and left handed, improved ergonomics and faster response, there are all Moreover the actions of modern computing forever wants rid of the mouse. Everything you touch is perhaps a demonstration of this (and Mario gave his opinion on the matter), but is also seen in the wireless management or representing scanning technology using cameras and motion sensors. With a similar logic to the latter appears NPointer, an application by a gesture control system, you can turn your hand and your head in the mouse of your computer.



It is a gesture control software that records movements of the hand or the head via a webcam and then translates them into movement of the mouse pointer. Clearly it is a very useful tool for testing to be part of a new generation remote control of computers or for people with disabilities, who for some or other condition can not use a mouse to have fine motor impaired. In the past we saw many similar applications, but this is a bit different from all the others because, first, it works great. At the start, offering a menu screen to perform key actions such as mouse clicks, double clicks, handle the scroll wheel or drag files or text. Npointer configured quickly and the better your webcam, the procedure will more fluently.



Six virtual action buttons are all that the user needs to map their hands after handling or NPointer head. Replicated similarly to the directions and actions of the mouse, you can move your head or hand to move the pointer and start the desired action. Use the Scroll option head is something you have to experience or yes. Although it has a steep learning curve and may need some time to get used to it and small synchronization errors both in gestures and in data capture by the webcam, NPointer shown as a utility if he takes the juice adequate and the accompanying development can become a window to the improvement of life for those who have motor difficulties, for those who have delusions of futurism or for those who have broken the mouse in the middle of work.

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