future PC

[CULWULLA]

i remember seeing this tom cruise movie Minority Report a couple of eyars ago. now its reality
How you control your computer is about to change!
THE LEAP


http://m.smh.com.au/digital-life/dig...525-1z8o5.html

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."

Wired Magazine's Roberto Baldwin was fortunate enough to get some hands on time with the Leap Motion and said he was "somewhat surprised" to discover it to be everything portrayed in the demo video above but predicted it wouldn't be replacing the computer mouse or trackpad any time soon.

"It will be a secondary input device for most people, and a primary input device for just a few hardcore users," he said.

If you check out the video above, it looks pretty impressive, but what might be even more impressive is that the company plans to sell the device for $US69.99 and begin shipping its first wave of units by December or January.

It sounds too good to be true, we know," the site says. "But, that’s what we specialise in around here."

The "iPod sized" device, which was inspired by its founders' frustrations with current 3D modelling technology, connects over USB and will be able to function with both Mac OS X and Windows 7 and 8.

Leap isn't the only motion sensor technology out there. Earlier this year Microsoft launched the Windows version of Kinect, which is available for $US249.99, but Leap could become its competitor.

Whether the start-up, which also plans to invite developers to create apps for the Leap, can follow through on all of its promises remains to be seen. A lot can change and happen over the course of seven months, especially at start-ups, but if Leap Motion can deliver, what a delivery that will be.

[Brizer]

Would they just slow down a bit; I'm still trying to catch up with earlier stuff!!!!

[Perth4life]

you'd get sore arms

[L2]

Originally Posted by Perth4life

you'd get sore arms

Don't you get sore arms already from smoking too much dope behind the milkbar carpark at North Freo?

[invincible]

This might serve some sort of niche like pressure sensitive tablets but the future of computing is in handheld (or embedded) devices connected to the rest of the world with simple and intuitive interfaces.

[Fyver]

The worlds your tablet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v...eZ38&vq=medium

[Burden]

eh, its a step in the right direction but not quite there yet me thinks.

[RDSA]

yaaay, i can't wait!

[Cruise]

Just imagine the porn in a couple of years!

[Burden]

Originally Posted by Fyver

The worlds your tablet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v...eZ38&vq=medium

Wow that is cool! Hopefully it'll become mainstream. I noticed its technology is utilized nowadays in a couple of high performance cars that change with the natural lighting of the day - now eliminating the need for window tinting in cars.