Apple experimenting with multitouch swipe gestures for keyboard in iOS

Appleinsider reports on Apple's U.S. Patent No. 8,542,206 for "Swipe gestures for touch screen keyboards". The patent deals in part with using various swipe-like gestures as keyboard input shortcuts.

New Microsoft Touch Cover features gestures

New Microsoft Touch Cover 2 was announced today along with Surface Pro 2. There are an early reports it has some touch gestures added:

Slide two fingers across the number key line, and the Touch Cover will highlight text. Release, and the selected text will be deleted. A spacebar gesture talks to Windows 8.1′s word recommendation system.

 We will report more on these once more information becomes available.

First HP Computer With Embedded Leap Motion Tech Will Ship This Fall For $1,049.99

Techcrunch reports

"The HP ENVY17 Leap Motion SE is the first shipping computer to build the startup’s tech directly in, and features a new embedded Leap Motion sensor that dramatically reduces size vs. previous embedded designs."

Structure Sensor: Capture the World in 3D

This new device from Occipital could be used as 3D gesture input sensor. Can't wait to see first applications!

Dryft Wants To Reinvent The Way We Type On Tablets

More news from Disrupt SF 2013 stage:

Swype co-founder Randy Marsden — along with Bridgescale Partners co-founder Rob Chaplinsky — decided to take another stab at reinventing typing on the go with an Android keyboard app called Dryft.

From Dryft's product description:

Dryft provides a true natural no-look typing experience on the screen of the tablet. It allows the user to rest their fingers on the screen and automatically brings the keys to their fingers. Then, it detects the vibration of the user tapping on a key to tell the difference between them resting and typing. It is this combination of finger tracking and touch-tap detection that makes Dryft work; and the patents for both features are already issued! ... Dryft accomplishes its magic by combining not one, but TWO sensors: touch and vibration. That makes it possible for the user to rest their fingers on the screen, the same way they would on a physical keyboard. Then, the keys “drift” to the user’s fingers and forms the keyboard around them. Next, it combines data from the device’s touch and accelerometer sensors and picks up on the vibration caused when a user taps on a key. In this way, Dryft can tell when the user is resting and typing.

Microsoft Announces Surface 2.0 Event In New York City On September 23

Again, via techcrunch:

Today Microsoft released invites to its forthcoming Surface 2.0 event in New York City. The shindig, taking place in Chelsea on the 23 of September, will show off new Surface hardware.

Secret Handshake Lets You Pay With Hand Gestures And Leap Motion – No Phone Or Card Required

TechCrunch reports:

One of the TechCrunch Disrupt hacks this year is the brainchild of Matthew Drake, an Atlanta-based employee of advertising firm 22squared. Secret Handshake, Drake’s hack this year, uses the Leap Motion gesture controller, combined with Clover’s shopping cart point-of-sale API, to allow people to pay using only a unique hand gesture or “secret handshake.”