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CeBit 2008

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Matt Loney ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 07 Mar 2008 17:11 GMT

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Wolfgang Reiner from the Fraunhofer Institute shows how to move a cursor and manipulate images by pointing at them from metres away.

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