After all, I live in Los Angeles and have myself brandished the universal hand gesture of disrespect.
Hand gesture can also be used to, fast forward, rewind or skip to a desired point in the movie or music.
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In Romeo and Juliet, a member of the Capulet family makes a rude hand gesture in the direction of a group of Montagues.
With a light hand gesture (flipping), you can discover five totally different experiences in Smart Hub, as if you have five new TV sets.
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Sometimes, he need not bother with opening his mouth or picking up his pen: When confronted by a reporter outside a Boston church in 2006, Scalia used a certain Italian hand gesture some call vulgar.
Hi-Fun's gloves are Bluetooth headsets -- or, well, handsets -- with the speaker built into the thumb and the mic in the pinky, so you can talk by doing the traditional "call me" hand gesture.
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It was a frame full of drama on and off the baize as referee Colin Humphries, 24 hours after warning O'Sullivan for a hand gesture, was forced to call a foul after Chigwell's finest potted a red when on 60 with the black ball still to be returned to the spot.
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Cut to Lang Lang, in his red tuxedo, pounding away at the piano, head thrown back, lifting his right hand in a gesture of ecstasy, while the masses applaud.
She waved her hand at them, a gesture practiced over centuries, and even though there was no magic in it, Blork was instantly quiet.
As he spoke, he waved his hand in a vague, regal gesture, like somebody absent-mindedly swatting away a fly.
"One of them looked up towards Mr Casal and proceeded to make a gesture with his left hand across the thigh of his left leg, " said Mr Temple.
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What he saw amounted to a bunch of awkward glances, so he came up with a simple gesture, involving a hand over the heart, which allows people to simply acknowledge those in uniform.
That opens up the possibility of putting virtual objects into the real world, letting you "pick up" a computer-generated 3D architectural model and spin it around in your hand, for instance, or gesture to control a virtual display appearing on an actual wall.
That kind of unconscious communication via gesture happens all the time, but people tend to discount gesture because they think of it as mere hand-waiving that accompanies (conscious) speech.
Although the arm is missing, fingers of his left hand press into the soft flesh of his hip, an unusually casual gesture for an Olympian hero.
Soon gesture-recognition systems, which will read the occupants' hand gestures in the empty air, will supersede touch screens and capacitive switches, avoiding, among other things, greasy fingerprints on the controls.
At a news conference with Israeli President Shimon Peres, Jordan's foreign minister, Abdul-Ilah Khatib, said he and Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit were "extending a hand of peace" on behalf of the region and expressed hope that the gesture would "create the momentum needed to resume fruitful and productive negotiations" between Israel and the Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world.
Viana pursed his lips and ran his hand over his bald head, as if he still had hair and was smoothing it, a gesture from the past.
Gesture recognition might seem a mismatch with phones since people tend to keep them close at hand, but TI believes there are plenty of reasons people will want to manage their handsets with motions.
Additionally, taking self-portraits or group shots are easy thanks to Samsung's unique Gesture Shot, which applies motion-sensing technology so that users can control the camera remotely using hand gestures alone.
With Samsung's unique Gesture Shot, which uses motion-sensing technology, users can zoom and snap a photo with simple hand motions from across the room.
When you perform certain gestures with your hand--such as touching your thumb to your index finger in the "okay" sign--there are electrical signals associated with that gesture that pass through the nerves in your upper arm as they carry commands from your brain to your hand.
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