Virtual gaming has been a big highlight of most games nowadays, with a lot of focus being placed on the visual and audible aspect. In my opinion they seem to be doing a pretty good job, but what about the sense of touch? The only real...

Many of us know that owning an iPod touch means we have to take extra precautions when handling it. We have to make sure it doesn’t fall, nothing hits it, and most importantly, not allow water to get inside it or else we could kiss the...

In a July 10 story about touch screens, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Synaptics Inc. supplies touchpads for Apple’s laptops. Synaptics supplies components to Apple, but not laptop...

These are some common touch-screen technologies:_ ResistiveThis is the most common kind for portable electronics. It’s found on Palm Treos, HTC phones and the Samsung Instinct.Two layers of clear conductive material lie on top of the display....

A controller developed at Carnegie Mellon University allows computer users to manipulate three-dimensional images and explore virtual environments not only through sight and sound, but by using their sense of touch.The device, expected to be used...

The ‘whiskered’ robotic rat is the recent successful multinational project of nine participating countries that will be an inspiration to robotics fanatics and other researchers and most especially to human situations in which it will...

With fierce competition driving portable media player vendors up the wall, the push is on to capture the consumers’ imagination. Since technology takes its own sweet time to evolve, pricing and internal memory have become the main bones...

If I had to name one mobile company of all for most innovative designs in recent past then without doubt it’ll be LG. They have certainly improved a lot with time. Their mobile phones have gone from shear wastage to total ownage. LG will soon...

Chicago drivers have a new way to pay for gasoline: with their fingertips.Ten Shell gas stations in the Windy City are testing biometric systems that let consumers walk up to the pump, scan their fingertips on a device and fill up their vehicles....

It’s official: touch screens are the big new thing in cell phones this holiday season.Sprint Nextel Corp. announced Wednesday it is jumping on the bandwagon with the Touch by HTC. Like Apple Inc.’s iPhone, this smart phone has only a...