Apple has been granted a patent (number 8171432) for a touch screen device, method and graphical user interface (UI) for displaying and selecting application options. embodiments relate generally to ...

Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent for a device control mode in which a user can interact with a multitouch display even when no content is being shown on screen, thereby saving battery life when a ...

Apple Computer in its research and development labs is experimenting with a variety of touch-screen technologies, recent patent filings have revealed. The latest filing surfaced late last week, ...

Chances are you have picked up a tablet somewhere and given it a test drive. Perhaps you are more like me and spend far too much time each day with one tablet or another clutched furtively in your ...

(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc.’s long-awaited foray into touch-screen laptops will bring major changes to the Mac interface, including the addition of the iPhone’s Dynamic Island feature, according to ...

Yesterday at its CES press conference, Nvidia talked a lot about how it believes the future of the car will involve large numbers of screens. Today, Volkswagen debuted its prototype of the Golf R ...

The gestural interface used by Tom Cruise in the movie Minority Report was based on work by MIT Media Lab’s Hiroshi Ishii, who has already commercialized similar large-scale gestural interface systems ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The organizing committee of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) selected “DiamondTouch: A Multi ...

Capacitive touch interfaces are replacing mechanical switches, knobs, and dials in consumer, automotive, industrial and medical applications. Capacitive touch sensors have gained popularity due to ...