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<span style="font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal;
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height="44" width="124" align="left">Over the
past eight months or so, a new company in San
Francisco called Leap Motion has been gathering
attention in the computer world, culminating
earlier this month in a couple of big business
deals. Leap Motion makes software and hardware
that allow computer users to interface with their
machines through hand gestures, rather than using
a keyboard, mouse, or touch screen. This
technology can track hand motions as small as
1/100th of a millimeter in three dimensions. Some
people think this could lead to revolutionary
changes in the way we interact with our computers.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://readwrite.com/2012/12/24/is-this-the-hottest-tech-company-of-2013">This
tiny gizmo could be a very big deal in 2013 -
and beyond</a> (ReadWrite/Dan Lyons)
"Basically the engineers at Leap Motion have
invented the 3D user interface of the future.
You don't use a keyboard and mouse; you don't
even use a touch screen. You just move your
fingers in the air, and, as if by magic, with
zero latency and pinpoint accuracy, stuff
happens on your screen."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/26/3118592/leap-motion-gesture-controls">A
look inside Leap Motion, the 3D gesture
control that's like Kinect on steroids</a>
(The Verge/David Pierce) "The simplest thing it
can do is simulate a touch screen, so you can
interact with any display as if it were
touch-enabled - we were slicing pineapples in <em>Fruit
Ninja</em> in seconds, without a moment of
extra development or additional software.
Developers that do take advantage of the Leap's
SDK will be able to do much more, however, and
the possibilities appear to be limited only by
your imagination."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://gigaom.com/2013/01/03/leap-motion-gets-30m-to-change-how-you-interact-with-and-think-of-computers/">Leap
Motion gets $30M to change how you interact
with computers</a> (GigaOM/Stacey
Higginbotham) "That's a nice win in the
computing space, but the real question for me is
can a new UI change how we interact with
computers, and perhaps help keep the PC
relevant? David Holz, the co-founder and CTO of
Leap told me that he helped invent the product
because he wanted to do things on his computer,
like play an instrument or make a model, that
were made far too complicated by the existing
programs limited by drop down menus necessitated
by having a keyboard or mouse interface."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57561705-76/leap-motion-motion-control-tech-to-be-bundled-with-asus-pcs/">Leap
Motion motion control tech to be bundled with
Asus PCs</a> (CNET/Daniel Terdiman) "When Leap
Motion first announced its technology, it
expected the Leap would be ideal for industries
like surgery, gaming, architecture, design,
engineering, and more. But almost from the
get-go, some of the most interesting projects
developers were suggesting involved things like
automatically translating sign language."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Video
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">Leap
Motion has its own <a
href="http://www.youtube.com/user/leapmotion">YouTube
channel</a> of demo videos, which have been
viewed over 8 million times since the channel was
started last May.
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