FTA: There will be multi-touch gestures OS-wide. (Would make sense for that as the rumored OS for the iTablet is close if not the same as the iPhone). “A few new ways” to run applications in the background — multitasking. Many graphical and UI changes to make navigating through the OS easier and more efficient.
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As rumored, Microsoft at its CES 2010 keynote showed off an HP-designed tablet computer. The “slate” is completely new and lacks a physical keyboard, instead relying on capacitive touch. It also runs on Windows 7, sports multi-touch and adjusts for the orientation of the display, suggesting it has both an x86-based processor and [...]
3 High-Tech Features Of The Apple Iphone – What’s the big deal behind the Apple iPhone? It’s expensive. It’s revolutionary. But are its features worth the money?
With all the popularity, you can assume everyone’s at least heard about it. What does the Apple iPhone feature and what can it do?
#1: Multi-Touch Technology
The most outstanding feature [...]
Though Apple has shunned the stylus in favor of multi-touch on the iPhone and iPod touch, a new patent application suggests the company is investigating superior handwriting and input recognition via pen.
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Today Apple introduced the new wireless Magic Mouse, the first mouse to use Apple’s revolutionary Multi-Touch technology. Pioneered on iPhone, iPod touch and Mac notebook trackpads, Multi-Touch allows customers to navigate using intuitive finger gestures. Instead of mechanical buttons, scroll wheels or scroll balls, the entire top of the Magic Mouse is a seamless Multi-Touch [...]
Apple today updated its popular MacBook with a new, durable polycarbonate unibody design featuring a brilliant LED-backlit display, a glass Multi-Touch trackpad and Apple’s innovative built-in battery for up to seven hours of battery life. Inheriting technology and design features from the MacBook Pro line, the new MacBook is an ideal consumer notebook for students [...]
Reviewer Jonathan Rougeot (computershopper.com) rates the new 27-inch iMac 8.7/10 and makes it an Editors’ Choice, noting that “no one’s yet been able to match both the style and performance of Apple’s flagship desktop line.” Calling out the “stylish” new Multi-Touch Magic Mouse, “slim, wireless keyboard,” and “jaw-dropping” edgeless LED-backlit display, Rougeot concludes: “Apple has [...]
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Apple today unveiled an all new iMac line featuring brilliant LED-backlit 21.5 and 27-inch widescreen displays in a new edge-to-edge glass design and seamless all aluminum enclosure. The new iMac line, starting at $1,199, is the fastest ever with Intel Core 2 Duo processors starting at 3.06 GHz, and Core i5 and i7 quad-core processors [...]
Now this is the hack of the weekend or the hoax of the weekend. Some intrepid hackers have run what appears to be iPhone OS 2.x on a “multi-touch” monitor with accelerometer support.
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When Apple introduced the new MacBooks, MacBook Airs, and MacBook Pros in October, they also introduced a new four-finger multi-touch trackpad gesture that allowed users to easily switch between applications (swipe left/right) or invoke Exposé (swipe up/down). While it’s long been known that the original MacBook Air and early 2008 MacBook Pros…
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In a University of Delaware news article from way back in October 2008, Wayne Westerman, the engineer credited as the lead inventor of multi-touch, described his inspiration for the technology.
Westerman explains how his bout with tendonitis played a major role in the development of touch-sensitive technology:
“I had an ergonomic problem and I paired it with [...]
It’s nice to finally hear companies playing nice together instead of the constant legal battles and negotiations. According to an unnamed Google Android team member, Apple politely asked Google not to use multi-touch in their Android platform and Google willingly complied.
The Android team member stated that Google didn’t want to risk its positive relationship [...]
The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office today released a patent application from Apple describing research into gloves that allow the wearer to operate electronic devices. Apple clearly intends for the glove to be used in conjunction with Multi-Touch devices such as the iPhone and iPod touch and to cover a much broader class of electronic [...]
