And you thought multitouch gestures were annoying – how about mashing your whole hand on your screen to close an app or rapping on it with your knuckle to summon Siri (or Iris?). A new techn... Read more
For the first 50 years of computing, the input and output of a computer have been to different places. Mobile computing and the touch screen are quickly changing things though and the change... Read more
As a child sitting in the back of the family car, did you ever use your finger to doodle in the condensation on the inside of the windows? Well, a group of engineers and designers from Toyot... Read more
For the last eight years, German presentations specialist Stereolize has been helping Microsoft do its thing at CeBIT, and every year the company tries to top the previous year’... Read more
Last September we covered a story about a pressure-sensitive artificial skin developed at Stanford University that is so sensitive it can “feel” the weight of a butterfly. As par... Read more
The University of Groningen (yeah, we had to look it up on G Maps too) has managed to convert a 3D theater into a large ass touchscreen. How large you say? Well, freakingly gigantic large sa... Read more
Image by Eliel via Flickr Creating software to make multi-touch work properly is the hardest part of developing these systems At Perceptive Pixel‘s offices on Manhattan’s West Si... Read more
Always thought your skin was more than just a thing to stop your insides falling out? Well, you were right. Chris Harrison has developed Skinput, a way in which your skin can become a touch... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Hand-held devices could soon have pressure-sensitive touch-screens and keys, thanks to a UK firm’s material that exploits a quantum physics trick. The technology al... Read more