An Apple patent spotted by Patently Apple shows a spring-loaded pop-up iPhone home button that acts as gaming joystick when in the raised position. Or, in patent language: An electronic device ...

Apple wants future devices to be able to have a variety of input features that can work in tandem. The company has been granted a patent for “Multitouch Data Fusion.” The patent filing relates to ...

Such devices can be operated to provide inputs that are received and acted upon by the external device. The inputs can be provided as rotating, tilting, and/or sliding at least a portion of the ring ...

Touted as the main input device for a video game console, a gamepad (joypad/controller) usually alludes to a game controller that needs to be held in two hands, where the thumbs and fingers are used ...