A newly granted patent from Apple refers to "hover sensitive devices" in addition to touch devices, possibly indicating that the company is looking beyond multi-touch in order to process input made ...

Next week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, LG looks set to unveil a revolutionary new smartphone with gesture controls. In a brief teaser video, the South Korean tech giant boldly promises the ...

If you've ever taken guitar lessons, you know that various musical chords are formed via various fingering positions. The "gestural language" Apple uses for onscreen iPhone navigation offers a ...

If you have an iPad (any model) running iOS 4.3 then you can easily add additional four or five-finger multi-touch gestures to your iPad. It will take only a few minutes and you don’t have to ...

Android has come a long way in the last 16 years. The T-Mobile G1 — or HTC Dream where I’m from — bears little resemblance to the excellent smartphones we use today, with its chunky bezels full of ...

When it comes to browser support for the multi-touch gestures built into newer Mac notebooks, Firefox has been absent from the party, giving Safari a bit of an edge in some users' minds. The Firefox ...

Apple’s MacBooks come with a built-in multi-touch trackpad that supports a wide range of gestures to help you perform various operations efficiently. Likewise, its external trackpad, Magic Trackpad, ...

Apple spent another day at the patent office, locking down this idea: a Multi-Touch Gesture Dictionary that identifies all kinds of finger play you can do on upcoming multi-touch interfaces. It ...

Microchip Technology has expanded its Human Interface Input Sensing Solution portfolio with the addition of 3DTouchPad, a PC peripheral and world’s first Development Platform for 2D multi-touch and 3D ...

Developers working in the touch screen arena are, it appears to me, wielding some of the greatest wow-factor breakthroughs around at the moment. It was only at Microsoft’s ReMIX 08 rich media ...

I’m a big fan of the Multi-Touch trackpads on Apple’s recent laptops; by letting you use various gestures to perform actions, this technology makes the trackpad much more useful than when laptop input ...