How you control your computer is about to change. Here's how
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Subject: How you control your computer is about to change. Here's how Fri May 25, 2012 3:54 am
Leap Motion, a San Francisco start-up, wants to change the way you control your computer with a little device it revealed this week.
The Leap is a small 3D motion sensor that goes in front of your computer and creates a 3D interaction space of 8 cubic feet from which you can use your hands and fingers to direct your computer.
Leap Motion, a San Francisco startup, wants to bring motion sensor controls 100 times better than any other in the world to your computer for less than $US70.
Leap Motion, a San Francisco start-up, wants to bring motion-sensor controls, 100 times better than any other, to your computer for less than $US70. Photo: Leap Motion
The makers of the device, which is reminiscent of Nintendo's Wii and Microsoft's Kinect, say it is 200 times more accurate than anything else on the market, no matter the price, and can track your movements "down to a 1/100th of a millimetre."
"It’s more accurate than a mouse, as reliable as a keyboard and more sensitive than a touchscreen," the company says on its site. "For the first time, you can control a computer in three dimensions with your natural hand and finger movements."