touchscreens
Gadgets
9:25AM Nick Broughall | If it wasn’t for the fact that I need a home phone line for ADSL (I can’t get Naked at my exchange), I would have dumped my home landline years ago. The T-Hub, which was shown off at the Telstra Investor Day yesterday and also popped up on their intranet, doesn’t really make me want to hang on to the legacy landline option… More »
Telstra Unveils The T-Hub… Does Anybody Want One?
9:25AM Nick Broughall | If it wasn’t for the fact that I need a home phone line for ADSL (I can’t get Naked at my exchange), I would have dumped my home landline years ago. The T-Hub, which was shown off at the Telstra Investor Day yesterday and also popped up on their intranet, doesn’t really make me want to hang on to the legacy landline option… More » 
Phones
Nokia Patent Gives Another Glimpse Into Touchy-Feely Future
2:00AM Jack Loftus | Gadget patents are a strange lot. Is that dual-handed interface for an iTablet, or something else? Will my remote really Tweet someday? Probably not, but this one from Nokia has me thinking of a touch and, more importantly, pressure-sensitive future: More »
Robots
Design Epcot’s Newest Roller Coaster Each Time You Ride
10:00AM Mark Wilson | Opening today, Epcot’s Sum of All Thrills ride will change every time you ride. That’s because you’ll draw your design on a touchscreen computer before hopping on. More »
Screens
Touch Display Actually Lets You Touch Real Thingies
12:27AM Jesus Diaz | Leave it to a Japanese team—leaded by Hideki Koike at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo—to develop a touch display that uses rubber to allow you to actually touch real three-dimensional thingies. Hideki, you got me at rubber. More »
Computers
Why Desktop Touch Screens Don’t Really Work Well For Humans
6:14PM Brian Lam | Why don’t touchscreen desktops work very well? You’ll get tired gesturing on a monitor for more than a few seconds. (Try it on a desktop monitor now — see?) [Techcrunch]
Science
After Pressing, Touching, Tapping And Shaking? A Scratch
12:00AM John Herrman | Remember that bizarre, inflatable touchscreen with buttons that crawled out of Carnegie Mellon University’s labs a few months back? Those same researchers—who can’t get enough of unorthodox input methods—have another one for you: scratch input! More »
Gadgets
RIM Patents Hybrid Capacitive-Resistive Screen
2:20AM Danny Allen | We love capacitive screens because they enable all that responsive multi-touch goodness we demand, but struggle compared to resistive screens in the accuracy needed for, say, stylus character entry on phones. RIM’s solution: layer ‘em up, and file a patent. More »
Peripherals
“Smartest Cover” Gives Your BlackBerry Storm Nipples, For Fingering
10:20AM John Herrman | It was that or “The ‘Smartest Cover’ Is Dimpled For Your Pleasure,” so consider yourselves lucky. Anyway, this thing: it adds tactile feedback to your touchscreen phone by means of little tiny transparent lumps. This might be stupid. Or genius. More »
Computers
Sony Bringing Touchscreen Vaios This Fall, PSN Content Possible
1:40AM Adam Frucci | Sony has some touchscren Vaios planned for this fall to coincide with the release of Windows 7, which features more robust touchscreen support than Vista. It’s also working on bringing content from the PlayStation Network to VAIOs at some point. More »
Phones
11:00PM Matt Buchanan | The iPhone probably doesn’t use Synaptics’ original ClearPad capacitive screen multitouch technology, but maybe Apple will use the ClearPad 3000, since it registers ten fingers simultaneously. I hope they steal this three-finger crumple gesture at least, it’s so cool: More »
Synaptics ClearPad 3000 Means 10 Fingers Multitouching Your Phone, Crazy New Gestures
11:00PM Matt Buchanan | The iPhone probably doesn’t use Synaptics’ original ClearPad capacitive screen multitouch technology, but maybe Apple will use the ClearPad 3000, since it registers ten fingers simultaneously. I hope they steal this three-finger crumple gesture at least, it’s so cool: More » 
