I don't understand the sudden surge of gesture input devices, myself, but I guess some people are pretty excited by it; it's met its funding goal with 33 days to go.
It makes a lot more sense to me if someone with disabilities uses it over someone with a perfectly good pair of hands & arms. I have a Leap Motion and it is absolute garbage in terms of computer control. Using it to control a robot arm is a lot more intuitive, though, and works pretty well.