With Samsung tablet hardware smarts, and Windows 8 innovation, it's possible Bill Gates's decade-long desire for Microsoft-powered tablets will soon be a reality. Now, can they catch on with consumers?READ»
With the misty complexity of its thickly shrouded pre-launch PR, TabCo has the tech world intrigued as to what it may actually deliver. A spokesperson offers Fast Company some exclusive new details about the company's most innovative tricks. READ»
Robots are ever closer to being clever enough, autonomous enough, and useful enough to actually become part of daily life. Here are the latest robo-developments. READ»
We are all good at some things and need work on others. Body language is no different. Use the principle of compensation to bring the weaker skill up to par.READ»
Forget old-fashioned "window shopping," a new gesture-based tech lets you browse a store's inventory through the shop's window--and you can even pay for it by holding your smartphone to the glass. READ»
Microsoft's Kinect may be a toy, but a new hack is giving it some serious skills: As an interface to the incredible robot surgeon da Vinci. It's accurate enough to sew sutures.READ»
Apple's got a slew of patents on multitouch technology, but it's just won a bunch more. And guess what? On future iPads and iPhones, gestures are going to get a whole lot funkier--and you may not have to touch the screen.READ»
The iPad 2 rumor mill, spinning ever faster, spits out today's fresh excitement: Apple's tablet (and possibly iPhone 5) may lose its home button, gain the ability to understand complex gestures, and have full-powered photo apps.
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Another day, another Kinect hack, but this one really gives us a taste of a sci-fi-esque future: Kinect can now directly control the limbs of a humanoid robot. READ»
Kinect hacks are coming thick and fast, but here is one that will set millions of PC gamers' hearts a-flutter: A hack that lets you gesture control WoW.READ»
Apple's just been granted an important patent on multitouch gestures. This almost ends the debate on who "owns" multitouch, and simultaneously gives us a glimpse into how we'll interact with slate PCs and touchscreens in the future.As ...READ»
Moto Development Group has thrown together a neat prototype device that could possibly be the future of casinos: A multitouch, automatic, cybernetic Blackjack table. Finger-flicking financial fun, perhaps, but also a way to cut down ...READ»
Nokia may be excited about gesture control on the N900, and Apple may be all over multitouch patents that make multiple gestures possible, but Google's taken the next step, and built a programmable Gestures API into Android 1.6.
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Apple isn't the only company with some creative plans for smartphone UIs: Nokia just revealed how it thinks we might control our phones in the future. There'll be a lot of waving them in the air.
Though Nokia was horribly late to ...READ»
Some new research by iSuppli has an interesting implication--sparked by the iPhone's innovations, accelerometers are going to be the thing to have in cell phones over the next year. In fact, one in three phones will have them.
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"Wave your hands in the air like you...wanna avoid an asteroid," will be U.K. cinemagoers battlecry over the next few weeks. Before the feature film starts, Vue patrons will be able to play a gesture-controlled 3-D ...READ»
Microsoft's Surface shows off the capabilities of multi-touch computing admirably, but it's still limited by the machine's box. It's no surprise then to find plans to take Surface off a flat screen and dot it all over your home. ...READ»
Samsung has knocked out cellphones like there's no tomorrow recently--and its latest pair of touchscreen smart phones come with a novel feature--programmable gestures. Programmable gestures, like those used with graphics pads and on ...READ»
The Nano Touch device currently being demoed by Microsoft research adds a wonderful twist to modern touchscreen tech: the back surface of the device is touch-sensitive too. Though this sounds clumsy at first, it's actually a rather ...READ»
