Remote controls are getting a serious makeover this year. When they're not being replaced by voice commands, as Sony, Samsung and LG have promised for 2012, they're being displaced by hand gestures.

The Magic Wand Remote Control, a device that adds a wizardly flourish to home entertainment, is a motion-sensing accelerometer that translates the hand's nuance movements into commands from a remote ...

What is it? A magic television remote wand. Or a "buttonless remote control that can learn up to 12 infrared codes from existing remote controls and replay them when the user makes one fo 12 ...