Will These Guys Kill the Computer Interface As We Know It?
From: Popular Science - August 2013
By: Tom Foster

How two grade-school friends created Leap Motion, a company that wants to
turn mouse-clicks into waves of the hand. 

The Leap Motion controller looked like a miniature iPhone and sat on a table
in front of a computer onstage. Within an eight-cubic-foot cone of space
above it, the controller can track motions as small as .001 millimeters,
making it significantly more sensitive than Microsoft’s Kinect. David Holz
started waving his hands above the Leap, and tracer lines danced across the
computer screen. He wiggled his fingers, barely perceptibly, and zoomed in on
the display until the tracers again filled it, only this time they were
following movements within one centimeter of space. He panned around the
display to show the tracers in three dimensions. A few people gasped. He
stuck both hands out above the device, and a detailed 3-D picture of them
appeared on the screen. He pulled up a block of virtual clay and, in a few
seconds, sculpted a Bart Simpson–like character in thin air and spun it
around for the audience to see from all angles. “I’m very proud that that is
now possible,” he said simply. The audience cheered. 

Read the entire article and view videos (1:12 & 1:11) at:
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2013-07/will-these-guys-kill-computer-interface-we-know-it

Link:
Leap Motion
https://www.leapmotion.com/