Google's Project Soli lets you control gadgets using hand gestures

Forget swiping screens and hitting the wrong keys with your thumbs, Google has developed a gesture technology so precise it works on even the smallest of displays. Called Project Soli, the system identifies subtle finger movements using radar built into tiny microchips. Leading researcher Ivan Poupyrev told MailOnline his team's breakthrough will be a complete 'game changer' because it can use the gestures to create virtual dials, touchpads, and more Mr Poupyrev heads up the a team of designers and developers at Google's secretive Advanced Technology and Projects lab in San Francisco. Inspired by advances in communications being readied for next-generation Wi-Fi called Wi-Gig, leading researcher Ivan Poupyrev's team shrank the components of a radar down to millimetres in just 10 months. The biggest challenge for Soli was said to be to have been to shrink a shoebox-sized radar - typically used by police in speed traps - into something tiny enough to fit on a chip At a developer conference in California, Mr Poupyrev demonstrated the abilities of the Soli system to a crowd by tuning a radio simply by rubbing his finger and thumb together above a chip 'Making VR as a whole much less awkward and more intuitive to use.'