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…
Get Swype for Android right now
Swype is making its interesting touchscreen keyboard available to select Android users in a limited beta. If you don’t know, Swype was created by the guy who invented T9 and it’s trying to be a new way for text input on touchscreen displays. Instead of clicking on letters, you swipe your finger in a continuous…
Cheaper iPhone with new controls may come this summer
Apple will be bringing out lower-cost iPhones this June with new, gesture-based controls, according to Morgan Stanley analyst Katy Huberty. In a note to investors, Huberty said research suggests the biggest barrier to iPhone entry for many consumers is the price of hardware, followed by the cost of the service plan. This was the case…
Video: Hands-On with Synaptics Fuse
Back in December, touch technology manufacturer and licensor, Synaptics, announced that they had teamed up with a bunch of industry partners to create a concept phone called Fuse that was jam-packed with every kind of sensor imaginable to illustrate to proper handset manufacturers what was possible. At CES, they were showing a little bit of…
Motorola DROID Hacked for Multitouch
The one touch control feature that everyone has been clamouring for on every other smartphone since the iPhone has been multitouch, and though the Palm Pre managed to squeeze it in, we haven’t really seen it anywhere else. Well, a clever programmer has cooked up a ROM that shows multitouch working on a Nexus One…
Synaptics’ Fuse Lets You Squeeze it, Touch its Behind
Synaptics has just announced this really neat concept phone called the Fuse, which has sensors of pretty much every type all over it. First off, it has a touch sensor on the back of the device when combined with haptic feedback, unlocks some great potential for 3D apps and multitouch. The device is also pressure…
Video: HTC Leo Using Multitouch
Those delicious morsels of HTC Leo eye candy should have you sufficiently primed you for this bit of video goodness, showing just how smoothly its 800 x 480 capacitive touchscreen operates. As you can see, pinching gestures work flawlessly in both still images and video playback, and swiping from one gallery object to the next…
RIM Files Patent for Merged Capacitive and Resistive Touchscreen
RIM has filed for a particularly imaginative patent that merges the responsiveness of a capacitive screen and the precision resistive touchscreens. The hybrid system, dubbed appropriately (and cryptically) “electronic device and touch screen display” is described as: A touch screen display includes a display device, a resistive touch-sensitive overlay disposed on the display device and…
New Synaptics Tech goes Crazy with Multitouch
Synaptics, a big name in touchscreen technology, has announced their ClearPad 3000 and 1000 touch sensors, featuring a lot of great new gesture and multi-touch functions for manufacturers. While it won’t mean much to end-consumers until OEMs and ODMs pick these up, the tech demo is an impressive display of things to come to market…
Resident Evil 4 Bringing Zombie Apocolypse Fun To The iPhone In Late July
Capcom officially announced they will be releasing Resident Evil 4 on the iPhone later this month. The game will have on-screen controls (seen in the screenshot above) and judging by the video of the game in action, it looks like it will all of the sights and sounds we’re all familiar with in the Resident…