News Highlights: Point, don’t click: Pison Technology The system makes it possible to control robots and devices with gestures only Alfonso demonstrated Pison’s new gesture control system, a technology that has so far escaped corporate giants like Microsoft, who have spent hundreds of millions trying to perfect it. Pison, a startup emerging from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says it has developed a practical way to control all kinds of digital devices by intercepting the electronic traffic between our hands and our brains and translating them into commands that the machines can understand. The system was invented to help people with the nervous disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease, and others who have limited or no control over their muscles. Just the thought of moving their hands is enough.