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Post at 1-4-2011 21:46  Profile P.M. 
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Has anyone tried the new Gmail? OMFG!

It's bloody amazing, although a little bit weird to use at first.

Google have just introduced Gmail Motion.  If you have a webcam built in to your computer, load up Gmail and wave at the camera.  The Gmail Motion screen will automatically load.  You can use your hands to scroll through messages like Kinect - just move your hand through the air to scroll - and you can also use hand gestures to do different actions like replying to messages or starting a new message.

Technology is moving way too fast for old people like me... Try it out though, if you've got a Gmail account.  Just make sure you're on the first page after logging in, and wave at the camera to start it.  It took me a few seconds of waving before it detected me, but then it worked fine after the automatic callibration.

If you don't have Gmail, check out the video here to see it in action:
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

I'm not sure how much I'll use it, but it's pretty impressive nonetheless, and very useful for lazy people like me  

My SO had trouble running it from her computer though, so she had to install the motion sensing software from the link above

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You do realize its an april fool's right?
But then again im bad at getting sarcasm...
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No, you're not bad at sarcasm at all... really, you're not

...honestly



Seriously though, try it yourself if you don't believe me
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Post at 1-4-2011 22:02  Profile P.M. 
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Wow, its about time an innovative product has came out in the computer world that is not Apple related!

Thanks for the link!  Luckily Osx was able to run this new service quite smoothly without having to install the motion sensing software like you mentioned.

Finally a break thru in technology.  

Like you said, it is a lil difficult to get use to at first, but once you get a hang of it, its pretty mind blowing.  In the beginning I had a bit of difficulty learning all the hand gestures, but after watching the support video a couple of times, I finally was able to sort out the motions.  

Apparently Google stock has sky rocketed since the release, for all you trade savvy people on this board, you might want to look into shifting some hard earned cash to these guys.

I've read that they are now writing script to support retina scan, which allows you to automatically log into your email account just by staring at your webcam when you open www.gmail.com.
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Reply #4 scootermonger's post

I can't imagine them being able to do a retina scan with a webcam, but facial recognition could be possible.

Anyway, I'm just a bit blown away with the motion control right now.  I've had a couple of glitches, but besides that it works really well.
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and now Google has a camera into your home and record everything and send it back.

sorry... just getting paranoid with Google knowing too much about me.
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