Controlling your phone or tablet with a touch screen seems very direct and intimate. Nobody could manipulate your display without touching it, right? Wrong. When the IBM PC was new, I served as the ...

What’s most impressive about this touchscreen that knows the exact angle of the finger touching it is that it’s the same display hardware found in every smartphone on the market right now. Its special ...

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 ...