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Popular Android keyboard Swiftkey is currently pushing its latest update. Aside from the usual upgrades and bug fixes, the update comes with a blast of winter cheer! Swiftkey now includes a fun theme that fits with the winter season. To celebrate the holidays, the keyboard comes in an icy blue with snowy flurries which fly…
Most touchscreens simply deal with the everyday X and Y axes of navigation, but Sony Ericsson is developing a new kind of display that allows interacting on the Z axis as well, effectively allowing you to reach elements “inside” the UI. In this particular demo, icons moved faster or slower depending on how hard the…
It looks like the kiddos will be very touchy feely with their computers, as a report from Gartner says more than half of the computers purchased in 2015 for people under 15 will sport touchscreens. Devices like the iPhone, iPad and Nexus One are making people comfortable with touch on mobile computing but Microsoft has…
Rumours are bubbling up that Nokia is cashing in on their 2007 partnership with haptic feedback company Immersion, and will be making three new handsets using their so-called VibeTonz. VibeTonz is already built in behind the scenes on many handsets, including the LG Prada and Samsung Armani, and enables cool features like caller-specific vibration, touchscreen…
The road to true tactile feedback systems in touchscreen smartphones has been littered with half-baked, so-called “haptic” feedback solutions that do little more than vibrate the entire handset with every touchscreen input. Granted, the technology is still in its infancy, but there are some that would argue that implementing anything less than true tactile feedback…