[Leap Motion website]

A new USB device, called The Leap, creates an 8-cubic-feet bubble of “interaction space,” which detects your hand gestures down to an accuracy of 0.01 millimeters — about 200 times more accurate than “existing touch-free products and technologies,” such as your smartphone’s touchscreen… or Microsoft Kinect. The Leap is available to pre-order now (http://goo.gl/dnUla) for $70, and is expected to ship early next year.

Get more info and pre-order here: http://live.leapmotion.com/about/

See the video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_d6KuiuteIA

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… The company had dropped a few hints at various points about its work, prompting a 2011 TechCrunch article that guessed that its technology was “a poor-man’s Kinect.”

But seeing the current iteration in action, I can’t help think that the Kinect is really a poor-man’s Leap. …

See this story about the VC behind Leap here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57437591-76/for-silicon-valley-vc-a-leap-from-great-advice-to-big-rewards/