Software

Google Adds Two-Finger Lion Gestures To Chrome

Obviously those who disabled natural scrolling are laughing. But as you may’ve noticed already, Chrome’s three-finger left/right swipe to navigate through previously viewed pages has been broken in Lion, because that gesture now flips between desktops.


May 12, 2011
Computing

The Touchscreen With No Screen

Can you touch what’s not there? That’s what some students have explored in this ZeroTouch project, which has dozens of infrared sensors and LEDs around what appears to be an empty photo-frame. Connected to a computer, it translates the gestures.


May 10, 2011
Computing

Fisting A Multitouch Screen Looks Pretty Fun

Microsoft Surface is a technology that I know exists but wish it was a larger part of my life. And it’s getting better! Microsoft Research has been dabbling with Surface and adding new gestures that incorporate your whole hand, giving you more options than just point, point, point.


April 14, 2011
Software

Multitasktures: Swipe Between Apps On Your Jailbroken iDevice

Multitasktures is a really neat extension for your jailbroken iDevice that lets you swipe left and right, or use various other gestures, to navigate between open apps.


April 1, 2011
Computing

Apple Patents More Five-Finger Gestures And Chargers With Built-In Battery Packs

The latest pair of Apple patents to make the rounds actually look like two that could be realistically implemented sooner than later: one for a charger with an integrated battery pack, and one for more five-finger gestures in OS X.


March 5, 2011
Mobile

iOS 4.3 Jailbreak Available Now, Put Multitouch Gestures On iPhone 4

The iOS 4.3 Gold Master has already been jailbroken, meaning you can do cool things like enable the four and five finger gesture support on your iPhone 4. Just follow these instructions and these, for multitouch.


January 25, 2011
Computing

Apple Wants To Embed Motion Sensors In Your Keyboard

The latest Apple patent has surfaced, and it appears they like the idea of sticking motion sensors in a keyboard so that users can navigate their way through OS X without a separate mouse/trackpad.


January 21, 2011
Mobile

Are You Sure You Want Multitouch Gestures On Your iPhone?

Multitouch makes everything better, right? Well, maybe probably definitely not. Here’s a fellow demonstrating Apple’s new not-ready-for-the-public four-finger gestures on an iPhone. And he looks absolutely ridiculous.


January 6, 2011
Software

Perfect Browser Adds Tabs, Gestures And More To iOS

iOS: Safari is an OK browser on the iPhone, but it’s surprisingly unsatisfactory on the much larger-screened iPad. Perfect browser completely changes the iOS browsing experience, bringing tabbed browsing, user agent control, touchscreen gestures and hyperfast scrolling to your fingertips.


January 4, 2011
Gaming

WAVI Xtion: It’s Kinect For The PC (With An Awkward Name)

PrimeSense, the guys who helped make Microsoft’s Kinect, are now teaming with Asus to make the same thing basically…except it’s for the PC. Unfortunately, they’re calling it the WAVI Xtion.