HP to Embed Leap Motion's Gesture Control Technology
HP joins a growing list of OEMs who will be embedding Leap Motion's highly anticipated gesture control technology.
The MIT Technology Review describes the Leap Motion's 3D motion-sensing controller as "the most important new technology since the smartphone." The team can now add HP to a growing list of companies that plan to integrate its technology into their products.
HP intends to bundle Leap’s controller with “select HP personal computers” and intends to go one step further by creating “unique devices embedded with Leap’s technology.” Though no information as to what this will entail is available yet, HP’s Ron Coughlin, senior vice president of consumer PCs, noted the product’s ability to take “customers to the next level when creating and interacting with digital content,” which may indicate that the company is working on some peripherals for digital artists.
The Leap Motion controller is reportedly able to detect motions as small as 0.01 millimeters from all ten fingers at up to 290 frames per second and is expected to arrive with a retail cost of $79. A demonstration of the controller in action is available below.

You don't have to wave your hands and arm, thats the beauty of gestures. You could place one of these behind your keyboard, and when an email pops up, just point with your finger to open it, or swipe to the side to dismiss notifications. Both of these seem much more simplistic than mousing down to a pop up and clicking on it.
put it on its side, and calibrate it, ta daa, you got a tablet. hell, raise your arm a bit off the keyboard and there you go, move your fingers and you got another command... would be nice to have if the software is flexable enough to handle what i want it for
this is sub 100$
that is over 500$ and only has one function.
get the kinect, if you want to do animations for things, the kinect is the way to go... this may be good for hand animations and such if people write the software, but the kinect already has long distance applications.