<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">This technology looks so amazingly great. I had a glimpse on a few comments and some of them raised a doubtful questions like if it can really replace legacy devices such as keyboard or mouse with this. Regardless of these questions, I also wonder if this tech can be applied to those mobile devices in motion.<div><br></div><div>Thanks for sharing a charming tech.</div><div><br></div><div>-Jay</div><div><br><div><div>On May 22, 2012, at 2:59 AM, Basak Alper wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Anybody has seen this?<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:Palatino,Georgia,Times,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4"><span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6KuiuteIA&feature=youtube_gdata_player" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6KuiuteIA&feature=youtube_gdata_player</a></span><div>
<br></div><p><img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/qdPpoBLPno1Gy3usYOG4s9mavG3pP6VWO2FrmIIhUqXGgQxpdPOj3dCOwiWJm27iZpKJZvzdhbCdECnV19Yl5XF1dAU1qfHc_g=s288" alt="0leapmotion.jpg" height="481" width="288"></p><p>This morning, a San-Francisco-based company called <a href="http://leapmotion.com/" target="_blank">Leap Motion</a> released the demo video for their eponymous gesture control interface, which appears to be shockingly accurate: </p>
<blockquote>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.</blockquote><p>The system can distinguish thumbs from figures and tell when you're holding a pencil in your hand. Check it out:</p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>The Leap is <a href="http://live.leapmotion.com/pre-order-the-leap/" target="_blank">currently available for pre-order</a> at $69.99 a pop.</p>
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