Love that there is more than 1 way to do this hands free touching of comptuers, but for the moment I think the idea Leapmotion is using is better than mounting 2 cameras up so high. Maybe this competition will get Leapmotion to hurry up! Maybe 3Gear can find a way to mount dual cameras only to top of your corner of your screen and avoid the hassle of other mounting efforts needed up high as they show in demo…..?

Note the value of these systems is for Medical data entry where you can NOT touch computers screens without then having to glove up again. Imagine any time you have gloves on, but need to touch a computer in the past. Voice data entry can work, but often voice can not manipulate an object on the screen. You could use this at a food prep place where gloves are needed to touch food and you touch the air to enter info that allows you not to break the asepsis barrier that keyboards, touchscreens or other data entry systems for computers have. This is a big/new idea…will be fun to see how it changes the daily world that affects us. I see medical chart entry in hospitals and also food prep in fast food restaurants being two of the first areas to be used (beyond video games and other cool/fun stuff).

Software developers will want to add touch screen like buttons so that you can plug these air touch devices and just use them right away.

….anyone else get bothered by Subway guy that has gloves on, then touches the money drawer to run an order…then forgets to change his gloves for the next person (hey silly, the gloves are to protect my food, not to protect your hands). With so many customers buying with credit cards and not needing paper receipts, I see future transactions even at subway where an air touch screen could allow they to ring your order up and never touch anything (stay gloved up). Maybe we all keep a bit more germ free in the future? Next up the bedside table with your Hospital chart (they say Hospitals are some of the best places to go to get sick and die, maybe that could change if all data entered from air keyboards). All cool stuff.