##Don't make me wave!
My book report isn’t on a blog post or argument per se, but a technology that appears to be coming into fashion. Yesterday an article came out on Hacker News declaring that Flutter has been acquired by Google. Flutter is a motion sensor technology that controls apps or devices on your laptop by waving your hand in front of its little webcam camera. Google has evidently seen the future here.
Another company with a very similar product is just now starting their first production run. LeapMotion makes use of infrared LEDS triangulated in a motion field that extends from a small device that’s just now being embedded in laptops. A cone of detection extends upward from your computer and you wave your hands through it to manipulate programs, most usefully probably for 3-D drawing when a Z axis is needed.
I’m actually somewhat conflicted about this new technology trend. On the one hand I feel like advancements, whatever they may be, a