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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.

Admit it, Potterheads – you've probably whispered "accio" when you've felt particularly lazy, casually leaned against a brick wall at a train station in the hope that you'd get to Platform 9 3/4, or ...