Some amusing hand gestures from the skeleton tribe.

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#Meta plans to unveil its first consumer-ready #smartglasses with a #display, codenamed #Hypernova, at its annual Connect conference. The glasses will be sold in partnership with #EssilorLuxottica and feature a small #digitaldisplay in the right lens. Alongside the glasses, Meta will launch a #wristband that allows users to #control the glasses with #handgestures. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/22/meta-hypernova-ar-glasses-wristband.html?eicker.news #tech #media #news
Meta to unveil Hypernova smart glasses with a display, wristband at Connect next month

Meta's glasses are codenamed Hypernova and will include a small display in the right lens of the device, people familiar with the matter told CNBC.

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AirBending - Gesture-based MIDI Controller | Nanas Sound

Transform your hand gestures into expressive MIDI control with AirBending. Using your Mac's built-in camera, it tracks hand movements in real-time for a new level of musical expression.

GitHub - collidingScopes/3d-model-playground: Control 3D models using hand gestures and voice commands in real-time. Threejs / mediapipe computer vision

Control 3D models using hand gestures and voice commands in real-time. Threejs / mediapipe computer vision - collidingScopes/3d-model-playground

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Le Corna – the Italian hand gesture to ward off misfortune. Turns out, it might have worked!

Even Italian President Giovanni Leone once shook hands with cholera patients while secretly making Le Corna behind his back. Superstition or strategy? Either way, sometimes a little extra luck doesn’t hurt at election day. I'm really feeling a bit relieved.

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The Power of Body Language in Acting - Casting Frontier

The more subtle the body language, the more refined the acting performance. Here are a few ways we use body language, consciously or not.

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Simply ages ago, on a long car trip with the kids, it occurred to me that rude hand signs formed a pattern, and that many are effectively free to be used, perhaps to convey new offensivenesses.

Five fingers, each a binary folded /unfolded. Hold right palm facing you, other side facing protagonist. Thumb is the least significant bit.

We could go in order, but why not start at the start instead:
00100 (4) 'I do not like you at all, you should go away. now.'
00011 (3) 'I am slightly old fashioned and slightly more polite, though the meaning of this is very much (4)'
10000 (16) 'you have a teeny tiny penis'
10010 (18) horns - too many meanings to count, depending on culture, music preferences and the patriarchy.

Some are not at all rude:
00000 (0) means 'I, as a member of this large protest group, have a thing to say about privilege and power'
00001 (1) 'can I ride in your car?'
00010 (2) 'look up there'
00111 (5) 'pew pew pew'
11000 (24) 'about this much alcohol in the tumbler please'
10001 (17) 'hang loose' the shaka
10011 (19) Gene Simmons trademark-applied-for horn sign and/or #ILoveYou #ILY

I particularly like 10101 (21) and think it should be 'I have slavishly considered hand gestures, I believe that you are such a very bad person that I am flashing the most difficult one at you, you unutterable bastard.'

#hoons #shaka #flipTheBird #handGestures #boganSignLanguage