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Leap Motion Controller ships May 13: pre-orders start today

, Feb 27th 2013 Discuss [0]

It would appear that the motion control masterpiece (or so we've heard) Leap Motion is pumped up and prepared for shipping as soon as May 13th with pre-orders starting today. If you're all about this device before you've tested it out yourself, you'll be glad to know that Best Buy will begin taking pre-orders with a ship date set for May 19th as well. Time to make your motion take hold of your content! Read The Full Story

Leap Motion sees its potential as a possible musical device

, Feb 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

As Leap Motion dev units have begun shipping out, developers have been toying with the motion-tracking device to find unique uses for it. One developer in particular ended up using his unit to help him out with his music recording. Stephane Bersot used the Leap Motion to play air drums, change the pitch of his guitar, and even control the EQ on his piano keyboard. Read The Full Story

ASUS partners with Leap Motion to bring gesture control to PCs

, Jan 3rd 2013 Discuss [0]

Leap Motion has been working hard the past several months to get its gesture control technology in the hands of developers. It's doing a great job so far, and it looks like all that hard work will pay off, because the company just partnered up with ASUS to bring the Kinect-like technology to the desktop. Read The Full Story

Leap Motion giving 10,000 developers free units

, Dec 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

Leap Motion, the start-up company that created an innovative gesture-control technology, is expanding its developer program and releasing a new software development kit, as well as giving a whopping 10,000 developers free Leap units over the next two weeks in order to increase the number of potential apps being released for Leap's new technology. Read The Full Story

Pre-Paid Leap iPhone not exactly cheap

, May 31st 2012 Discuss [0]

Today we’re finding that the idea of a pre-paid, no-contract iPhone is something that is driving the news media, but not necessarily customers, right up the wall. Reactions this week appear to be stemming from the unspoken rule that Apple’s selection of approved carriers for the iPhone is a near-impossible cookie to crack. What we’re finding here on Cricket is that there’s certainly nothing to get excited about, especially given the similarities between this carrier’s pricing and the prices users pay through every other outlet.

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Leap and T-Mobile sign spectrum swap deal

, Apr 9th 2012 Discuss [3]

Leap Wireless and T-Mobile USA have come to a license agreement that will see the carriers exchanging spectrum. Leap will be making use of additional spectrum in Phoenix, Arizona, as well as several markets in Texas. Leap would gain access to an additional 10Mhz of AWS spectrum. Meanwhile, T-Mobile will gain additional spectrum in Alabama, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Read The Full Story