New 'Food and Drink' hands-free mode keeps your screen smudge free

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Last Updated : Dec 27 2013 | 3:30 PM IST

Microsoft's Bing has introduced a new "Food and Drink" app on Windows 8.1 with a hands-free mode that will let user move through each step of a recipe by waving their hand in front of device's webcam.

Food and Drink features recipes for all kinds of holiday treats, pulled in from sites such as Epicurious, Saveur, and AllRecipes.com to take make holiday cooking more of fun and yet easy on your devices, PCWorld reports.

Hands-free mode works just like reading a book. A user can swipe his hand in front of the camera from right to left to go forward a page and from left to right to go backward.

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First Published: Dec 27 2013 | 3:22 PM IST

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