It seems as if the seemingly impossible technology from movies like "Minority Report" has become available for daily use! Meet 'Leap', a new type of technology that can be connected to your computer and allow the user to navigate hands free (without a mouse). It's about the size of a relatively big USB stick and is only £70 (yes I checked on Amazon) and is 200 times more accurate than previous devices, like Kinect. Leap is 0.5 inches tall, 1.2 inches wide 3 inches deep and weighs only 0.1 pounds! Leap really is bringing the future of hands free technology to our control. 
Leap is meant to be incredibly accurate so that it can register a sharpened pencil to 1/100 of a millimeter. Leap allows you to draw amazing 2-D and 3-D drawings, navigating your personal computer and even play games like Fruit Ninja or Blue Estate Prologue. Now for the time being Leap is only available for Mac and Windows but is said to be compatible with Linux soon. This is essentially a more accurate and more creative iPad or tablet with it’s own app store. 
The store has many different types of apps allowing you to play, create, explore and learn. One can create pottery, air drum, explore Google Earth and even conduct music. But of this amazing device is said to have many flaws. Looking on the Amazon user reviews I noticed how average the reviews were. The top amount of reviews (41) were in the 5 star category but 27 reviews were in the 1 star category. Most of the users say it is a great piece of technology that really innovates and revolutionizes navigating a computer but the complaints are that there aren't enough good apps. The users say consistently that it’s easy to reach the edges of Leap’s ability and that the software was a disappointment.
This is a great piece of tech that surely is going to evolve into something bigger but I can only hope that anyone reading this waits until further software updates. At this stage Leap is a beta tester (in my opinion) and needs feedback and time to grow into the proper thing. I see a lot of potential and promise in this product but maybe now is not the time to buy it.
https://www.leapmotion.com/
You have cool information and I like that you recommend people wait to buy it.
ReplyDelete