Kickstarter: 3D iPad Scanner by Occipital Digitizes The World for 3D Printing and Augmented Reality

Three days "sep23" into its Kickstarter, app developer Occipital had raised just under $600,000, or roughly six times its $100,000 goal—which, incidentally, was met in the first three hours.

Apple patents 3D gesture UI for iOS based on proximity sensor input

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday published an Apple patent for a method of generating and manipulating a three-dimensional object on a computing device, with the process controlled by special gestures made above a touchscreen's surface.