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everyone I'm jessica's all court from cnet here at CES 2014 what I have in my hands is a demo of touchless gesturing using ultrasound this is from elliptic lab it was launched at sea tech in Japan this is the first time we're seeing it here at CES what's interesting and cool about this technology is that it's using regular microphones and ultra sound speakers to create a wider field of motion so that means that you can gesture with your hand above below anything that you want another advantage is that it is going to be using low energy so when you turn gestures on it should not SAP your battery as quickly the advantage to ordinary users on their smartphones and tablets with this kind of technology that you'll be able to have a lot more control over gestures so for example your gesture doesn't have to be quite so precise to be a little bit sloppier it can also be a little bit more complex for example you control your fingers and that might turn up the volume on your music or you might spend your hands to do something else on your device now elliptic labs isn't making phones and tablets themselves they are selling this to other device makers so what we're seeing now in this prototype is going to be a little bit different than what we see on the actual end product a lot of that has to do with what those smartphone and tablet makers want we're going to start seeing this next generation touchless control technology and devices very soon in fact in 2014 I'm Tessa gevalt port for cnet here at CES you can catch all of our coverage at peanuts calm