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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A key feature of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro that Apple released recently is the new trackpad. It supports finger gestures that make it easier to use. In this Macworld Video, I take a close look ...

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 ...

Microchip Technology has expanded its Human Interface Input Sensing Solution portfolio with the addition of 3DTouchPad, a PC peripheral and world’s first Development Platform for 2D multi-touch and 3D ...

I’m a big fan of the Multi-Touch trackpads on Apple’s recent laptops; by letting you use various gestures to perform actions, this technology makes the trackpad much more useful than when laptop input ...

This will probably get lost in all of today's iPad coverage, but it's time for another entry in the Android multi-touch series. In this part we fill in the touch event code to let us drag an image ...

A number of users have found that their multitouch trackpads on MacBook and MacBook Pro computers may randomly stop accepting 3 and 4 finger gestures. While two-finger scrolling, tapping, and clicking ...

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 ...