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Leaving the phone lying on the dash and then performing a hover or wave to stop the music or advance songs works well in the car. Wave Control Pro also would be good for cooking -- control music with hands covered in dough -- or while cleaning, eating or working out. I'm looking forward to trying this next time I'm stuffing my face with street-vendor food or elsewhere when napkins are rationed.

Wave Control Pro, an app from MarksThinkTank, is available for US$2.99 at Google Play.

It's the holidays, and if your Android smartphone is feeling a bit neglected, I've got the perfect gift for it. Forget automating your life with remote-controlled garage door openers, motorized big-screen TV mounts, and electrically driven drapes -- that's all so last-century.

Controlling your phone with a wave of your hand is where it's at this holiday, in my opinion. Get the kids a Furby, Wii-U, Lego's Ninjago Epic Dragon Battle or whatever, and get yourself touch-less media control. It's hours of fun.

About the App

Wave Control Pro uses the Android smartphone's proximity sensor to let you control a phone by waving your palm over it. Settings for many media apps -- like Slacker, Winamp, Spotify and Pandora -- are pre- installed.

Actions are simple. Patiently hovering your hand over the sensor -- usually located at the top of the phone -- pauses or resumes the track. One dismissive wave over the phone advances the media to the next song. A double wave starts the previous track, and a demonstrative three waves enables or disables the controls.

I found Wave Control worked well with subscription-based music service Spotify on a Motorola Photon 4G smartphone and streaming radio Pandora on a Samsung Galaxy Y, but not at all on my Toshiba Thrive tablet. Nothing worked in that case. However, the publisher is looking for tablet-user beta testers, so maybe this will be corrected in due course.

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