[4eyes] "Leap" Forward

[Basak Alper]

Anybody has seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6KuiuteIA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[image: 0leapmotion.jpg]

This morning, a San-Francisco-based company called Leap
Motion<http://leapmotion.com/>released the demo video for their
eponymous gesture control interface,
which appears to be shockingly accurate:

It's more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more
sensitive than a touchscreen.... This isn't a game system that roughly maps
your hand movements. The Leap technology is 200 times more accurate than
anything else on the market -- at any price point. Just about the size of a
flash drive, the Leap can distinguish your individual fingers and track
your movements down to a 1/100th of a millimeter.

The system can distinguish thumbs from figures and tell when you're holding
a pencil in your hand. Check it out:

The drawing app looks freaking awesome, and imagine being able to do CAD
with your bare hands. That would take some clever tool/interface design on
the part of the software developers, but if the Leap is really as easy to
use as the manufacturers claim—"Plug the LEAP into a USB port. Load the
Leap Motion software. Do a quick wave to calibrate. That's it"—you can be
assured said developers will get on it.

Outside of personal computing, I'd love to see the Leap applied to ATMs, so
I never had to touch those filthy, smudged and sneezed-upon screens again.

The Leap is currently available for
pre-order<http://live.leapmotion.com/pre-order-the-leap/>at $69.99 a
pop.
Sent from my iPhone

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