A newly granted patent from Apple refers to "hover sensitive devices" in addition to touch devices, possibly indicating that the company is looking beyond multi-touch in order to process input made ...

In an apparent bid to extend the use of its multi-touch technology to devices other than iPhone, Apple in a new patent filing discusses the concept of a software-based multi-touch gesture dictionary ...

Although the question of whether multi-touch technology is ready for the desktop is an important one, there's also the issue of what multi-touch will be used for in the future. It's entirely possible ...

If you've ever taken guitar lessons, you know that various musical chords are formed via various fingering positions. The "gestural language" Apple uses for onscreen iPhone navigation offers a ...

Next week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, LG looks set to unveil a revolutionary new smartphone with gesture controls. In a brief teaser video, the South Korean tech giant boldly promises the ...

When it comes to browser support for the multi-touch gestures built into newer Mac notebooks, Firefox has been absent from the party, giving Safari a bit of an edge in some users' minds. The Firefox ...

Apple spent another day at the patent office, locking down this idea: a Multi-Touch Gesture Dictionary that identifies all kinds of finger play you can do on upcoming multi-touch interfaces. It ...

Apple's Multi-Touch technology from iPhone and iPod touch has trickled down into the MacBook Air and most recently into the MacBook Pro. The gesture-based trackpad technology allows you to pinch, ...

Android has come a long way in the last 16 years. The T-Mobile G1 — or HTC Dream where I’m from — bears little resemblance to the excellent smartphones we use today, with its chunky bezels full of ...

Apple’s MacBooks come with a built-in multi-touch trackpad that supports a wide range of gestures to help you perform various operations efficiently. Likewise, its external trackpad, Magic Trackpad, ...

For all its new multi-touch goodness, Windows 7 only has about 7 basic gestures. So if you’re all about the touch (and say, have a tablet PC) BumpTop’s stack of ...