Force-Sensing Tech Adds Third Dimension to Touchscreens
The idea of a 3-D tablet or touchscreen is great, except that current hardware limits us to exploring that three-dimensional world in two dimensions. Peratech’s QTC (“Quantum Tunnelling Composite”)...
View ArticleNose Stylus for Phones Is Not to Be Sniffed At
Designer Dominic Wilcox has come up with a Pinocchio-style “finger-nose stylus” that lets you navigate your touchscreen phone hands-free. He came up with the design after he found that he wanted to use...
View ArticlePatent App Shows How Apple Makes Touch Displays Fingerprint-Proof
All that swiping and tapping on your iPhone takes a heavy toll on the screen, leaving it a streaked and grimy mess. Apple’s been battling our greasy fingers for years, and a recently discovered patent...
View Article‘This Stuff Doesn’t Change the World’: Disability and Steve Jobs’ Legacy
When I heard that Steve Jobs had passed away, I was boarding a train from New York to Philadelphia to visit my son. A friend phoned and then text-messaged me the news before I could read it on Twitter....
View ArticleHuge Warplanning Tablet Does Everything But Shoot
The AAI Corporation doesn’t know the name of the two-by-three-foot tablet its representatives are showing off. “You, uh, wanna talk about what we’re gonna call this?” Chris Ellsworth of AAI asks his...
View ArticleTouchscreen Braille Writer Lets the Blind Type on a Tablet
One group of people has traditionally been left out of our modern tablet revolution: the visually impaired. But a Stanford team of three has helped change that. Tasked to create a character-recognition...
View ArticleThat’s Not a Touchscreen TV in Apple’s Event Invite — Here’s Why
In the emailed invitation for its March 7 press event, Apple included an image that's provoked intense speculation. Some observers suggest the hardware in the image doesn't relate to an iPad at all,...
View ArticleAmazon Patents Gravity-Based Links to Pull You In
To help you click on links (and buy products associated with those links) Amazon has patented a system that pulls the pointer towards the link or button.
View ArticleThese Screens Are the Only Things You Should Touch on the NYC Subway
Almost two and a half years after the first On The Go prototype was unveiled at Bowling Green station, 18 new 47-inch screens have powered up, offering riders at-a-glance route information in addition...
View ArticleThe Generation Raised on Touchscreens Will Forever Alter Tech Design
Children growing up these days see screens from the moment they are born and are drawn to them like moths to a light. This changes how we must design to fit their needs.
View ArticleWhy the A Magazine Is an iPad That Does Not Work Video Is Ridiculous
The video-turned-meme that using an iPad will re-calibrate a developing child's expectations is cute, and absolutely wrong, says one educational specialist. The post Why the A Magazine Is an iPad That...
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GeekDad Review: Sensu Portable Artist Brush & Stylus for Touchscreen Devices
While the iPad is brilliant for games, watching movies and offers passable web-browsing and e-reader experiences, I always thought that one of its cooler applications was as a digital canvas. Apps like...
View ArticleStorypanda Makes Kids Into Content Creators
The power of touchscreens and tablets in the learning and development of our children is in the way it offers even young children the ability to create and produce their own work and stories in digital...
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A Toddler-Proof Pac-Man Ghost iPad Case
Most casings and covers designed to protect devices from young children seem to focus on hard cases that are robust and strong and protect using the strength of the material. Clumsy Case by Studio...
View ArticleStylus Review Times 2: Adonit Jot Pro and Nomad Brush FLeX
Tired of smudging and prints all over the shiny glass of your tablet's display? Looking for something a little more realistic than your finger for writing, drawing or painting? Here are two good stylus...
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