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Microsoft Research Demos Touchless, Transparent Glass Display
11:51PM Rosa Golijan | Microsoft’s research division is doing tours across university campuses and rather than turning them into snoozefests they’re showing off an incredibly prototype. It’s a clear glass display which accepts input through voice control, touchless gestures, pen and eye-tracking. More »
Computers
BumpTop 3D Desktop Gets Unique Multitouch Gestures
11:20PM Danny Allen | 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 unique new gestures could be a very good thing. More »
Online
We Don’t Need No Gmail IPhone App: Gmail Mobile Adds Touch Gestures
1:30PM Dan Nosowitz | A native Gmail app would allow for gestures, offline reading, and quicker access, but Google just keeps improving the iPhone-optimised mobile Gmail site instead. With iPhone 3.0, they’ve added swiping gestures within the iPhone’s browser. More »
Games
Peregrine Overpowers the Power Glove, May Actually Work
12:15AM Dan Nosowitz | Like the beloved Nintendo Power Glove, Peregrine is essentially a glove-shaped controller, though for the PC this time. It can recognise about 30 gestures (touching a finger to thumb, or finger to palm, for example) and recognise them as hotkeys. More »
Phones
Sony Ericsson Yari Requires You to Move Like a Dork to Play Games
5:29AM Jesus Diaz | The Sony Ericsson Yari has gesture gaming. Instead of moving the phone or clicking buttons, “you make moves in front of the screen to get right in the middle of the action.” Oooooooook. More »
Software
Windows Mobile 7 May Get Gesture Controls After All
2:00AM Jason Chen | There was some question about whether or not Windows Mobile 7 may get those gestures we first saw a long, long time ago, but Mary-J has some slides that point to good news. More »
Peripherals
SmartTrack Neo Multitouch Pad for PC Lets You Do the Pinching Thing
10:28PM Jesus Diaz | If you have a PC you don’t have to be envious about the multitouch pad in MacBooks: Now you can replace your mouse with a big ugly thing and do the same magic moves. Wheee. More »
Phones
Apple Patents Movement Gestures for the iPhone
1:00PM Andi Wang | Apple recently applied for a patent for “movement-based interfaces for personal media devices,” which means a more advanced accelerometer and movement gestures for the iPhone. More »
Gadgets
Apple Patent Shows Nifty Keyboard Gestures for the iPhone
9:43PM John Herrman | 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. More »
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