Are you a Kinect addict and can’t enough? Well, if you have a iPad, you maybe able to do something like that as soon as next year possibly. Well, according to Mobile Magazine, a Kinect-like gesture system for the iPad will be demoed in early January at CES 2011 that’s developed by Elliptic Labs. The technology behind this Kinect-like gesture system sits in a special dock for the iPad and uses ultrasound. The special dock in combination with the ultrasound, creates a “touchless zone” (so to speak) that covers approximately one foot in front and to the side of the iPad’s screen.

The idea is that you use touchless gestures to operate primary functions of a docked tablet in situations like when you have wet or greasy hands in the kitchen. In general tablets are made for being handheld. When it is docked you are often walking or standing further away, and then using a finger on the screen involves a change of modality. Rather than bending down, leaning forward or picking it up you can use larger movements a little bit further away to do things like volume up or next song without changing modality.

Pretty cool, eh?

[Thanks 9 to 5 Mac!]