A Giant Leap for your PC

Motion control is not a new technology, Kinect had it for years, but a new device by a startup called Leap Motion has the potential to make motion control with PC ubiquitous and awesome, changing the way we interact with computer and may even sound the death bell for mouse.

The Leap Motion Controller tracks all 10 fingers up to 1/100th of a millimeter. It’s up to 200 times more sensitive than existing motion-control technology. All this packed in a device of size 3"x1" and costs only 80$.

With the controller, you can navigate through your Windows 8 Start screen by waving your hands in the air, and launch and play games on your PC without ever touching the keyboard.

Google Earth app can already be explored using Leap Motion, letting you fly high above the city of your choice for an earth experience like no other.

The device has a lot of potential in fields like 3D design, music, entertainments and education.

Leap motion is also providing API for application developers and has already launched an App Store called Airspace, where developers will sell the apps.

Duck Duck Go - The Search Engine You Have Never Heard Of

Its not yet in the league of big boys like google, bing or yahoo, but a new search engine DuckDuckGo has shown an impressive surge in search traffic recently and has crossed 2.5 million search queries per day mark this friday. 

The search engine does not store any user information and this fact alone has contributed to users wary of privacy concerns, flocking to it after the news about the NSA PRISM program broke out this thursday.

I tried it today and really liked it. It feels a lot like early Google, with a stripped-down home page and clean search result page. When you search on DuckDuckGo, what you get first is a definition of the thing you were looking for, followed by links that reference it. 

DuckDuckGo's results are a compilation of about 50 sources, including Yahoo! Search BOSS, Wikipedia, Wolfram Alpha, Bing, its own Web crawler, the DuckDuckBot, and others. It also uses data from crowd-sourced sites, including Wikipedia. DuckDuckGo Goodies tucked under More button add to it's coolness factor.

If you want to give it a try here is the link : www.duckduckgo.com