A team from the MIT Technology Media Lab wants to bring Leap Motion-style gesture control to smartphones with 3dim, a system using infrared light to track finger movements even within difficult environments.
Speaking to New Scientist, team leader Andrea Colaço says the 3dim system uses a low-power IR light source built into the standard smartphone camera. Software looks for mathematical structures within 2D image data, using differences in the time the IR takes to bounce off objects and return to the camera to gauge object distance.
According to Colaço this approach allows for a gesture-tracking system able to track 10 fingers within "a millimetre in space" while sipping only a few milliwatts from a regular phone batteries.
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The SlateBook x2 runs Android 4.2.2, and according to HP is one of the first devices carrying a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 4 processor. It features a 10.1-inch 1600x1200 IPS touchscreen, 16GB storage (expandable via microSD), 2GB RAM, an extra battery inside the keyboard and ports including x2 USB and HDMI. 
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