Since screens became part of our everyday life, they've been rigid and inflexible, but a quiet revolution means the next batch of gadgets could be sporting bendy bodies and displays. Faddish, but clever.READ»
Hit games for smartphones tend to be ultra-simple, like Angry Birds. But was designing that experience simple? Hardly. Creating an engaging experience on a tiny screen that's inevitably obscured by the player's sausage-fingers is a ...READ»
Despite all the conveniences of our touchphones -- despite the shortcuts and the fancy features and the endless overtures to efficiency -- we now will no longer deign to use our hands; we are Post-Hand. We are, instead, at the dawn of ...READ»
As digital cameras have outgrown their bulky origins and continued to miniaturize, some photographers and cinematographers joke that soon the "camera" itself will disappear, leaving just a lens with a chip and a screen on the back of ...READ»
Future-proofing against a world in which we’ve got touchscreens plastered on every last inch of earthly real estate -- for better or for worse -- Colebrook Bosson Saunders (CBS), a subsidiary of Herman Miller, has developed a ...READ»
Mega-touchscreens like Microsoft surface may have limited utility for real-world consumers (unless you live in a sci-fi movie), but they're perfect for institutions like museums, schools, and laboratories. Now a team of Finnish ...READ»
Touchscreens may not be all they're cracked up to be, but don't tell that to the glass-tech fantasists at Corning, who have dreamed up a spotless, shiny future in which everydamnthing around you is made of 100% Pure Glass Awesome™. ...READ»
Touchscreens (and screens in general) are awesome. So sleek! So dynamic! So futuristic! Yeah, well what if they're fundamentally confusing and dangerous, too?
It sounds like heresy, but I couldn't help wondering that after seeing ...READ»
HP's just revealed an all-in-one PC that's reminiscent of the current iMac, but sports a touchscreen and novel tilting stand. The thing is, it's pretty similar to patents Apple has protecting the design of future touchscreen iMacs.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»
Tricky-to-type touchscreens may become a thing of the past if Microsoft gets its way. The software giant has patented a dynamic form-shifting touchscreen that will help fingers feel the screen's feedback.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»
Touchscreen smartphones are the thing in the U.S. this year, with sales growing so rapidly it would give the Ares I-X a run for its money. And next year the pace of the change is going to be even faster. Welcome to the touchscreen ...READ»
As speculation increases on the InterWebs about Apple's mythical tablet Mac, spurred by some leaked video, another cool-looking tablet MID has surfaced, and this one's powered by Google's Android. It's the year of the tablet ...READ»
