Control Your PC/Laptop With Hand Gesture

Smartphones and tablets are spoiling us for our other devices. It's so easy to swipe, tap, and gesture our way through our mobile lives that we sometimes get frustrated with more traditional tech like laptops.

 Flutter aims to help solve one small problem in a fun way -- playing and pausing music quickly-- and it works great. Here's how to use it:

1. Install Flutter here for Windows 7.
2. Run iTunes, Spotify, Winamp, or Windows Media Player. Your Webcam control panel should also start up, but you can ignore it. 
3. Start up your music or video. 
4. To pause, just hold either hand up in front of your Webcam, between 1 and 6 feet away. You may need to play around with your angle a bit, but you should quickly find your media paused. 
5. To start up again, just hold your hand back up in front of your Webcam. 

That's it, for now. It's almost ludicrously simple, but it's a great way to control your music quickly. This teaser page implies that the brains behind Flutter are adding a skip feature to the app, and I am certainly looking forward to that, and whatever else they cook up.