We’ve seen gesture-controlled games, like Wii and Kinect, become popular among kids and assisted living residents.  Now, car makers allow a burdened person to wave a foot beneath a bumper to open a rear hatch.  And, of course, sign language is a gesture-based mode of communicating.  This piece doesn’t dwell exclusively on gesture controlled medical applications, but it’s a good bet that most of our readers quickly could adapt gesture-control to automated laboratories, tele-rehabilitation, assistive robots, physiological diagnostics, and other areas of “health care for the future.”  MORE