Some exciting news recently surfaced with regards to certain futuristic features on the Apple watch.

A recent patent spotted by Patently Apple reveals Apple Watch extending support for various hand gestures. Reportedly, the advance gestures could also be sign language that would again be supported by the device. According to report on 9to5Mac, hands-gestures such as your raising the thumb as in "Phone Me" signal or pointing or waving, could lead to actions being carried out on the Apple Watch or the paired device. The patent reveals:

"While voice and touch input can be an effective way to control a device, there may be situations where the user's ability to speak the verbal command or perform the touch gesture may be limited.

This (patent) relates to a device that detects a user's motion and gesture input through the movement of one or more of the user's hand, arm, wrist, and fingers, for example, to provide commands to the device or to other devices (…) The device can interpret the gesture as an input command, and the device can perform an operation."

The patent also goes on to reveal how the Apple Watch could make use of various sensors in order to interpret gestures:

"One or more optical sensors, inertial sensors, mechanical contact sensors, and myoelectric sensors, to name just a few examples, can detect movements of the user's body. Based on the detected movements, a user gesture can be determined."

Some of the detailed examples of the gestures include making patting motions with your hands palm-down to decline a call.  Likewise, the speaker volume could also be controlled by moving your hand up and down. But as the case with every Apple patent, no one can say if and when the features will be included in an Apple Watch.

But it would sure be very interesting to see this implemented sometime in the future. Keep coming back for more updates, rumours and speculations on the upcoming Apple products.