To take advantage of this, he devised a hybrid approach, with hand detection on the web frontend and mouse control on the Python backend.

The company's Smyle Mouse software product is the next-generation in head mouse technology that allows hands-free and voice-free control of Microsoft Windows devices via a regular web-cam.

But what it enables, thanks to the combination of accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers, is touchless control that would otherwise require a mouse or keyboard.

Camera Mouse is a free program, made at Boston College, that enables you to control the mouse pointer on your computer screen just by moving your head.