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Invisible Touch with HandScape at CES

HandScape claim to be "Reinventing touch" and honestly, it's not far from the truth. Their HandyCase puts a touch-sensitive panel on the back of a smartphone or tablet which lets the user work the device without fingers obscuring the display. LG has put buttons on the back of smartphones before but HandScape take it to the next level. Todd and

Google, There’s Something Wrong With My Nexus

This morning I discovered Google has changed the way the app drawer works on Nexus devices without any warning. Instead of scrolling horizontally in pages, the drawer now scrolls vertically in a single large page. Yesterday it worked the old way, today it works the new way. Google sneaked this in via the Play Store's auto-update feature. Note the scroll

Elliptic Labs Ultrasound Gesture Recognition

Although initially with a stylus and more recently with fingers, the touch user interface goes back as far as the early days of mobile devices to the Apple Newton and Palm Organiser. Elliptic Labs want to add non-touch to the mobile user interface with ultrasound gesture recognition. Todd gets a demo from Laila Danielson, CEO. Elliptic Labs use an ultrasonic

Ford SYNC 3 at CES

In the good old days, cars had heaters and radios. if you were lucky it might have had a cassette player. Getting directions involved winding down the window and asking a local. Today's vehicles have zoned environmental controls, multi-source AV, GPS with maps and drive train telemetry to three decimal places. All this is fantastic but while you're figuring out

Penclic – the Pen Mouse

Swedish company Penclic think that the pen is mightier than the sword mouse so Andy gets to grips with the Penclic Mouse to see if it's true. A picture paints a thousand words and once you've seen the picture to the left, you'll pretty much have grasped (sorry) the concept. You hold the Penclic Mouse as you would hold a pen and

IOGEAR Wireless Multi-Touch Pad

If you're a touchpad lover, then you'll be in heaven with IOGEAR's new Wireless Multi-Touch Pad (GTP520R), freshly announced at CES. As you might guess from the name, it's a wireless touchpad that supports multi-touch, which is pretty cool. Anyone with a smartphone or tablet will be familiar with multi-touch and gestures, but most laptop touchpads don't support either of

DirecTV HD UI Coming November 1st?

Rumors are circulating that the new HD user interface will start rolling out to DirecTV subscribers beginning November 1st.  It's been quite a while since DirecTV has done a complete revamping of their UI.  For the past several years we have only seen minor tweaks and updates.  Now, users of the HR20 and newer boxes, including the HR21, which is