When Apple had announced the iPhone in 2007, it brought with it the disruptive technology known as capacitive touchscreen, and since then we’ve seen this employed on a number of handsets using various platforms such as Google’s Android, Microsoft’s Windows Phone, HP/Palm’s webOS, Nokia’s Symbian, and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry OS. Now, it seems that [...]
The iPhone 5 can’t get here soon enough, but the software that powers the new iPhone is just as important as the hardware itself, and we can expect a look at it in just a few months. iOS 6, the next version of the software that will come to the iPhone 4S and the new iPad, [...]
Every Android phone today has a front facing camera, but I rarely use the front facing camera, and I know I’m not alone. A new Google Patent , published on PatentBolt, may finally give us a reason to use our front facing cameras — gestures. Google wants to turn the camera on the front of [...]
Earlier this week when Apple sent out the invitation to the iPad 3 event, the image contained in the invite spawned a new rumor. While the obvious one was the Retina Display that seemed to be in the image, others began speculating about the lack of a home button in the image. And more specifically, [...]
Today Apple sent out invites to an event March 7 about a new iPad that could come some time within a few days to a few weeks of the launch. If the image on the invite shows the new device, then we might already know some details about the iPad 3 (or iPad 2S if [...]
After the Nokia Anna and Nokia Belle software update for the Symbian operating system, it appears that the Finnish smartphone-maker has Carla and Donna on deck as future software updates. According to dsmobile, it appears that Nokia may be working on a port of its swipe-based UI, which debuted on the company’s version of the [...]
Developer DDRBoxMan has used Microsoft’s Kinect camera to power a television or projected screen that mirrors an Android smartphone’s content. The development work is still currently in the early stages, but it looks like a promising start to not only mirror a smartphone’s content to a larger display via video out or HDMI, but also [...]
If you got an iPad 2 as a gift, but don’t know what to do next, you’ve come to the right place. We’ll show you how to set up your new iPad 2, get started with apps, backup your iPad and a collection of fun things to do with your iPad 2. Whether you got [...]
Patently Apple points to some new patent information from Apple that shows some possible (and potentially powerful) new touch gestures. The concepts behind these patents make good sense to me. First up is what is labeled as Swipe and Hold. The user swipes in a direction but leaves the finger on the screen. Data then [...]
Ever wanted to control your phone with a gesture or motion of your hands? Thanks to eySight’s gesture control technology, which works in the same way that gamers control the interface of the Xbox thanks to Kinect, users can begin to start gesturing to their phones later this month when Pantech launches its new Vega [...]
With the latest release of the third beta of iOS 5 for developers, Apple has introduced a number of gestures aimed at possibly replacing the home button, which will take you to the home screen from any screen and also aid in multi-tasking. Found within the Assessibility menu is a new gesture control panel called [...]
Apple announced iOS 5, the latest version of the popular iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch operating system at WWDC 2011 this week. While iOS 5 will be coming to a collection of devices, there are a number of new iOS 5 features that extend the functionality of the iPad and iPad 2. While iOS 5 [...]
Patent applications can give us some idea of what companies are thinking about for the future. And usually that future is a ways down the road. Apple has recently filed some patents that show some interesting new multi-touch gestures for its iOS devices, although I would assume some of that might make it to the [...]
Similar to the discrete gesture areas on webOS smartphones like the HP Palm Pre, an Apple patent shows that the iPhone-maker is looking to embed dynamic buttons, gestures, and actions into the unusued bezel area surrounding the touchscreen smartphone. In the patent application, Apple intends to use the area as a secondary display with electro-luminescence technology. Apple [...]
With the developer previews of OS X 10.7 being rolled out by Apple, we’re beginning to see new features in additions to those features that Steve Jobs had demoed in a prior Apple keynote. Those features take the best-in-class user experience designs of Apple’s experience in mobile from iOS on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and [...]
At a BlackBerry event in San Francisco, Engadget had spent some time with the BlackBerry PlayBook where Research in Motion (RIM) is demoing some new features of the device that the company had not talked about at CES or prior. Among the new features is an attractive portrait-oriented software keyboard, which like the Galaxy Tab, [...]
The new iOS 4.3 beta that was released to developers this week reveals hints that Apple may employ a proximity sensor in the next iPad to automate the process of locking and unlocking the tablet display. In the past, Apple has used–and popularized–proximity sensors on the iPhone to automatically turn off the device’s display while [...]
Developers had discovered new multitouch gestures on the iOS 4.3 Developer Preview of Apple’s mobile operating system targeted for the iPad, however, the company is saying that those features are for testing at this time and will not make it to the consumer release of iOS 4.3. Those new multi-touch gestures provides the same functions [...]
With the rise of the iPhone, many handset-makers have tried to replicate Apple’s success with capacitive touchscreen displays, abandoning old technologies such as resistive touchscreens. While there are advantages and disadvantages to both touchscreen technologies, for now, gesture support, ease and accuracy of tapping, and the ability to use high-end materials, such as Gorilla Glass, [...]
The developer beta of iOS 4.3 will bring a number of new features to the iPad, iPhone, and Apple TV. On the Apple iPad tablet, the new version of iOS will allow users to swipe with four or five fingers to access important commands that were previously limited to the multi-function press of the home [...]
At today’s “Back to the Mac” event, Steve Jobs and company showed off Mac OS X 7 a.k.a. Lion. Unlike the Snow Leopard release, which was primarily under the hood improvements, Lion is mostly UI improvements, specifically features they’re bringing in from the iPad and iOS.
Last we heard from Evoluce, they introduced a 47″ HD multi-touch display for surface computing. Now, they’ve made touch unnecessary with an off-screen gesture detection system that responds to your hand movements as if you were touching the screen, much like Microsoft’s Project Natal.
If you’re someone who wishes you had MacBook-like scrolling on your Windows machine’s trackpad, this hack might be for you. Lifehacker has put it all together for you and let’s you know upfront that you won’t get all the pinch to zoom or rotation gestures, but you will be able to scroll from your trackpad, [...]
Finally, a search option on a modern mobile I can get excited about: Gesture Search on Android 2.0. Draw a letter on the screen and find anything on your Android phone that starts with that letter.
GBM regular fleon shared news in the forum that StrokeIt, a gesture-enabling app for Windows, has returned from the abyss. The news from their website, however, seems to indicate a return from the future. Yeah, I’m guessing that’s a typo. Regardless, a new version of StrokeIt is presently available to enable all sorts of gesture [...]
Daniel Roth from Wired Magazine published an interesting article about a battle that’s brewing over gestures. The stakes are high as touch computing moves into the mainstream, with as many as 30% of mobile phones expected to have the feature by 2013. Flicking, pinching and swiping are all gestures that the likes of Apple, Nokia, [...]
Looks like Fujitsu wants to get into the multi-touch trackpad game. The P8020 ultra-portable will have one on board so you can pinch, navigate, rotate pictures, etc… using two fingers only though, from what I’m seeing. There are buttons. You’ll have to look pretty deep under product features to see this touted on Fujitsu’s product [...]
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