Where would be without Multi-Touch? It's hard to imagine, given that the vast majority of today's smartphones utilize some form of multi-touch, and many new all-in-one PCs, monitors and tablets do as ...

Anyone who has tried to use a multi-touch touchscreen with anything other than their bare skin will know that it’s just not possible, no matter how hard you press. That’s because the capacitance ...

One doesn’t have to look very far these days to see the ever increasing prevalence and popularity of multi-touch technology and the additional interaction it offers the consumer. Opening up an even ...

Multi-touch is the new, erm, normal-touch, and everyone is getting in on it. It’s easy to see why — moving your fingers over a flat pad is much easier on the wrists than mice and trackballs (for me at ...

Up until now, only Mac-users have been able to sacrifice their carpal-tunnels at the beautiful white-glass altar of RSI that is the multi-touch mouse. It has been possible to hack Apple's Bootcamp ...

When the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued patent number 7,479,949 for a "touch screen device, method, and graphical user interface for determining commands by applying heuristics," eyebrows ...

Ever wanted to build a touch table or other touch-input project, but got stuck figuring out the ‘touch’ part? [Jean Perardel] has your back with his multi-touch frame over on IO that makes any surface ...

Multi-touch is the elephant in the room on Android phones -- elegant proof that the OS lags behind the iPhone in some areas. The HTC Hero is the only phone that currently has the feature, and it's ...

This is the first in a series of articles on developing multi-touch applications with Android 2.x. It is excerpted from Chapter 11 of the book ""="">, available in beta now at The Pragmatic ...

The popular iPad accessory maker Brydge is returning to public life today with a series of announcements. The company is introducing multi-touch trackpad support for its Pro+ keyboards, as well as an ...

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