In recent years the field of haptic and gesture studies is expanding and improvements are being made by developing, testing and refining devices along with software to give a sense of touch or to use gestures to interact and "feel" three dimensional virtual objects. Such technologies have a significant role to play in education. The uses of modern devices based on gesture or haptic technologies and their applications in chemistry education, for example, may provide a platform to the students to better comprehend ideas about several chemical subjects. This paper covers the fundamentals of such technologies, studies a few commonly used devices, and concludes with the current use in education. A brief description of an educational gesture-based system for chemistry experiment simulations and molecular visualization is presented in this paper. It also describes some didactic scenarios and discusses current results and future works.