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Apple Patent Shows Nifty Keyboard Gestures for the iPhone

While many non-imminent Apple patents can edge into the realm of wishful thinking, this one is pretty doable: useful little gestures for the iPhone, which are received over the phone’s onscreen keyboard. According to the patent application, simple input commands like delete and space would be controlled with simple back and forward-swipe motions. While remapping…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 26

FluidTunes Lets You Frantically Flail Through Your iTunes Library

Mgestyk’s system-wide camera control system looks fun, but FluidTunes, a simple program that lets your toss around your iTunes library via your iSight, has two important things that it doesn’t: free-ness and out-now-ness. Available now as a free universal binary, FluidTunes is a simple creature; despite what looks to be a solid gesture recognition engine,…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 2

G-Speak Minority Report Gesture UI Actually Made By Minority Report Designer

Un-frickin-believable: there’ve been a few pretenders, but it looks like this new G-Speak system is really the Minority Report UI made into science-faction;it’s made by one of the guys who actually worked on advising the Minority Report movie. It even has gloves something akin to Tom Cruise’s natty controllers from the film, and it lets…

Tech News Kit Eaton Nov 17

RC Hand Flips the Bird at Other Drivers, So You Don’t Have To

Gadget makers just occasionally stump-up with something that seems so wonderful you have to buy it: the remote-controlled electroluminescent gesturing hand is one of these. Sucker it onto your car’s rear window, and enjoy the ability to signal your pleasure or displeasure at other drivers without sticking your arm out the window. Guess which gesture…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Oct 22

Synaptics Adds New Multitouch Gestures To Trackpads

Synaptics, best known for developing the Zune Pad and Android G1 screen, have unveiled two new multitouch gestures for their PC touchpads: two-finger flick and ChiralRotate. Two-finger flick is fairly self explanatory — you swipe your finger from side to side on the trackpad and it will move through a series of files, such as…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 30

Gyration MotionSense Air Mouse Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Mousemat

Movea’s Gyration Motionsense Air Mouse adds to the ranks of new mice with gyros and accelerometers inside so you can control your computer just by waving them mid-air. It’s an ambidextrous mouse using 2.4GHz wireless tech with 100-foot range and it’s got both customizable buttons and gesture recognition. Inside there are two rotational gyro axes…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Sep 24

Toshiba Magic Gestures Convert You Into Hitchhiking Gandalf

To be honest, I was going to headline this article “Toshiba Magic Waving Handy-Spanky-Fingery Gestures Are Perfect for Harry Potter and Online Porn Users,” but I decided against it at the last minute for obvious reasons, even when I had two powerful arguments in favor. You will understand them when you watch Helga-the Good Toshiba…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 30

Apple’s Multi-Touch Gesture Patent Has So Many Combinations It’s a Shocker

You can already do a handful of gestures on the new MacBook Air and MacBook Pro’s trackpad, but Apple’s going in and patenting a whole bunch more. Not only are there gestures in this application that involve a thumb and three fingers-something casual users will probably never use-but there’s even a sample of how this…

Tech News Jason Chen Jul 3

Windows 7 Features Revealed

Click to viewClick to viewHere’s what Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer revealed about Windows 7 at All Things Digital a few minutes ago. The biggest “feature” is the touch and multi-touch integration, which takes many of its roots from Microsoft’s Surface Table, and will be available as an interface options for other apps. Here’s some…

Tech News Jason Chen May 27

Giga-Byte GSmart Windows Mobile Phones Have a Fancy Smart Touch UI

It took a year for Giga-Byte to follow in HTC’s footsteps, but the upcoming GSmart Windows Mobile smartphones will have a brand new UI on top of the standard WinMo affair. The interface is called "Smart Touch," and will be more finger-friendly—more oriented toward gestures and finger-navigation—lending itself to launching your commonly used programs directly…

Tech News Jason Chen May 5

TouchBrowser Brings iPhone Finger-Flicking Browsing to Windows Mobile

Desktop-like browsing is already headed to Windows Mobile in version 6.1, but can you use your finger with it? Like on the iPhone? Not exactly. For that, you’ll have to install TouchBrowser. Along with being able to pan around a page to get your Britney Spears news with your finger, there’s even a proprietary onscreen…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 14

Synaptics’ Boomerang Buttonless Remote Control Concept Might Not Catch On

This Boomerang concept by interface company Synaptics is supposed to illustrate a few different input methods for remotes to control TVs and DVD players. Although it’s buttonless, the Boomerang still has a TouchPad (like the one on your notebook), as well as gesture recognition for stuff like channel switching or volume control. Kinda neat in…

Gadgets Jason Chen Jan 23

MacBook Pros Getting MacBook Air’s Multi-touch Trackpad

We think this is pretty obvious, but AppleInsider says they’ve received info that the MacBook Pros will also be getting the MacBook Air‘s multi-touch trackpad feature (which we got hands-on of here). The feature was supposed to be rolled out in another refresh for the MBP line around Macworld, but was delayed in order to…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 21

Windows Mobile 7 Details Leaked – Multi-touch, Motion Gestures

InsideMicrosoft just got a gigantic scoop of Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 7, due to be released in 2009. This isn’t Windows Mobile 6.1—which we’ve seen leaks of recently—but the next full version of Windows Mobile that fixes a bunch of problems we’ve seen with the platform. The huge changes are multi-touch gestures (including flicking, swiping and…

Tech News Jason Chen Jan 6

Sony Ericsson Updates Walkman Phone Line With W890 and W380

The two latest Walkman phones from Sony Ericsson, the W890 and W380, continues their music-focused approach by loading up Walkman Player 3.0, the newest release of their player software. The W890 has features we’ve seen before, such as FM radio, 3G HSDPA, SensMe tempo and mood detector, Stereo Bluetooth, a 3.2-megapixel camera and quad-band GSM.…

Tech News Jason Chen Nov 6

Apple Patent Shows Nifty Keyboard Gestures for the iPhone

FluidTunes Lets You Frantically Flail Through Your iTunes Library

G-Speak Minority Report Gesture UI Actually Made By Minority Report Designer

RC Hand Flips the Bird at Other Drivers, So You Don’t Have To

Synaptics Adds New Multitouch Gestures To Trackpads

Gyration MotionSense Air Mouse Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Mousemat

Toshiba Magic Gestures Convert You Into Hitchhiking Gandalf

Apple’s Multi-Touch Gesture Patent Has So Many Combinations It’s a Shocker

Windows 7 Features Revealed

Giga-Byte GSmart Windows Mobile Phones Have a Fancy Smart Touch UI

TouchBrowser Brings iPhone Finger-Flicking Browsing to Windows Mobile

Synaptics’ Boomerang Buttonless Remote Control Concept Might Not Catch On

MacBook Pros Getting MacBook Air’s Multi-touch Trackpad

Windows Mobile 7 Details Leaked – Multi-touch, Motion Gestures

Sony Ericsson Updates Walkman Phone Line With W890 and W380

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