GestureTek: CEO Interview

While at CTIA 2008 in Las Vegas I ran into to William R. Leckonby, CEO of GestureTek which you can listen to here (scroll down).

Bill Leckonby doesn't look like your EZ Bake CEO so often seen at fledgling companies. Bill is in his 60s, a silver haired Yale trained engineer and has over 22 years of CEO or President experience. That's reflective of GestureTek's heritage, a going concern launched in 1986 when they invented and shaped the field of ‘applied computer vision’ for computer-human interaction. The company’s multi-patented video gesture control technology (VGC) lets users control multi-media content, access information, manipulate special effects, even immerse themselves in an interactive 3D virtual world – simply by moving their hands or body.  Think either CNN anchors on election night changing screens with the movement of a hand or Tom Cruise in Minority Report--all their handiwork.

Listen to my interview with GestureTek CEO (1click, 5:38 mins)

GestureTek now has jumped to mobile. Through the camera on your mobile phone, any handset device  device can be enabled to control the device through gestures such as shaking, rolling, or banking.  Minimal software embedded on the camera pre-distribution by the operator, and that's it. Alternatively it can be downloaded via a game program which incorporates the GestureTek software. Very low calorie high impact solution. GestureTek already has their software on applications within NTT DoCoMo and Telefonica in Spain.

Watch GestureTek. They are about to become a long term, overnight success story.