In Steven Spielberg’s movie Minority Report, the agents of a police state monitor people’s lives to stop crimes before they are committed, using giant computer screens that they operate using mid-air hand gestures. But in the real world surgeons, not spies, may be the first to handle data in this way. It appears to be a great way to avoid hospital-acquired infections like MRSA, which can easily be spread via a keyboard or mouse.
Writing in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (vol 15, p 321), engineer Juan Wachs and colleagues at Ben Gurion University of the…
