Control your iTunes library, Minority Report style
Posted on 05 April 2009, at 9:25 am, by Raymond Yu
A friend of mine pointed out an interesting piece of software called FluidTunes, which allows you to control your iTunes library (in CoverFlow view) by use of gestures, picked up by your iSight camera on your Mac.
Now upon testing it myself, it’s quite obvious that the product hasn’t quite left beta stage yet, as even moving my elbow to move my hand in front of my camera causes it to control something. Usability factor, at this point, is almost ZERO. But does it have a high Geek factor? Hell yeah.
Credit: IMDB
I believe that right now it is in a Mac OS-only implementation, but hopefully they’ll port it over to Windows soon.
Link: Fluid Tunes
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April 5th, 2009 at 11:22 am
It's fun to play with, for a while, but it gets really tiring when you have to navigate through hundreds of albums! I've found that the trick is not to move your whole arm – hold your hand in front of the button and kind of waggle your fingers to activate it.
April 5th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Well yeah. The problem is you're navigating it one track at a time. But I get a kick out of showing it to my friends every time
April 5th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
I tried this when it first came out but it felt more like “proof-of-concept” to me than anything else. Cool idea but not much more than that in my experience.