But now the hegemony of WIMP may be coming to an end, say developers of technologies based on human touch and gesture. For evidence, look no further than Apple’s one-year-old iPhone. From a ...

Touchscreen displays are going to get a big boost from Windows 7's built-in support for multitouch tech — but there's a hitch: Flicking, scrolling and opening programs can be cumbersome when stubby ...

Apple engineers put considerable thought into a “wearable electronic ring computing device” small enough to put on a finger. The proposed smart ring would have a touchscreen and work closely with ...

Touch screen monitors add an entirely different dynamic to your computer usage. Most of us are fairly adept with a mouse and keyboard, but screens with touch capability add a different dimension and ...

The human fingertip is an exquisitely sensitive instrument for perceiving objects in our environment via the sense of touch. A team of Chinese scientists has mimicked the underlying perceptual ...

Windows laptops have one big advantage over Macs: touchscreens. I’m not saying you should switch to a touch-first PC experience and throw away your mouse. But too many people discount the usefulness ...

Apple Inc. has filed for a patent describing a computer mouse having a touch-sensitive shell capable of accepting multi-touch finger gestures, similar to the surface of the company's iPhone handset.