HTC recently unveiled its new flagship phone, the HTC Touch Diamond. Similar to the iPhone, it offers an innovative touch-screen based interface called TouchFLO 3D, which allows ‘three-dimensional’ control. The HTC Touch Diamond has 3.5G cellular capabilities (which the current ...

Microsoft’s new LucidTouch device is a mobile electronic unit that allows the user to control onscreen applications by touching the back of the see-through device. Unlike other touch-based devices, LucidTouch enables the user to use his hands behind the device, ...

European researchers are working on what they call a “tangible acoustic interface”, which will allow users to convert virtually any tangible objects such as table tops, walls, and windows, into interactive surfaces. The advantage of these new techniques is that ...

livePic is an interactive technology aimed at expanding the user’s drawing experience. Developed by Makoto Katsura and Masa Inakage at the Inakage Lab at Keio University in Japan, LivePic enables users to “move” and “control” the pictures they draw. A ...