Holiday cooking tip: Windows 8's Food & Drink hands-free mode keeps your screen clean

December 24, 2013

It’s holiday time, and America’s kitchens will soon be filled with laptops, tablets, and smartphones as home chefs follow along with all those great looking recipes you can find on the Internet. And you know what that that means: sticky, icky gunk smeared across your device's display. But wait! Holiday cooking doesn't have to smudge up your screen—if you take advantage of a great feature in Microsoft's Bing Food & Drink app, which comes bundled with Windows 8.1. Food & Drink features recipes for all kinds of holiday treats, pulled in from sites such as Epicurious, Saveur, and AllRecipes.com. More importantly for the health and safety of your device, however, it features a hands-free mode that lets you move through each step of a recipe by waving your hand in front of your device's webcam. Windows 8's Bing Food & Drink app. (Click to enlarge.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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