📅 April 5, 2013

“Slide to Unlock” Patent Invalidated by German Court

As part of an ongoing German patent struggle, Motorola on Thursday won a ruling from the country’s Federal Patent Court, which said found all claims of Apple’s “slide to unlock” user interface property invalid, though the decision can be appealed.

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As part of an ongoing German patent struggle, Motorola on Thursday won a ruling from the country’s Federal Patent Court, which said found all claims of Apple’s “slide to unlock” user interface property invalid, though the decision can be appealed.
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📅 November 23, 2012

FingerSense: Qeexo Wants To Bring New Dimensions Of Touch To Interactive Surfaces [video]

Qeexo wants to bring new dimensions of touch to interactive surfaces, and make better use of the natural richness of our hands!

Fingers have many “modes” – they do not just poke, as contemporary touchscreen interaction would suggest, but also flick, rub, knock, grasp, and many other actions. Qeexo wants to bring new dimensions of touch to interactive surfaces, and make better use of the natural richness of our hands!

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📅 June 6, 2012

Tactus Provides A New Dimension To Touchscreens [video]

What if buttons could morph out of the surface of your device? Tactus Technology has developed a new tactile user interface for touchscreen devices that does exactly that.

What if buttons could morph out of the surface of your device? Tactus Technology has developed a new tactile user interface for touchscreen devices that does exactly that.

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📅 February 4, 2012

FoldMe: Double-sided, Foldable Touchscreens [video]

The FoldMe project presents a novel device concept that features double-sided displays which can be folded using predefined hinges. The device concept enables users to dynamically alter both size and shape of the display and also to access the backside using fold gestures.

Check out the video after the break…

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📅 October 4, 2010

Fujitsu’s Dual-Screen Phone To Feature TAT’s Interface Design

today TAT has announced that Fujitsu Japan “will reveal a ground breaking dual screen mobile phone user interface powered by TAT’s design and technology initiatives.”

About a month ago we showed you the future of screen technology as seen by The Astonishing Tribe, which seemed pie-in-the-sky amazing and almost too fantastic to be realized. But just today TAT has announced that Fujitsu Japan “will reveal a ground breaking dual screen mobile phone user interface powered by TAT’s design and technology initiatives.”

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📅 September 7, 2010

Future of Screen Technology As Seen By The Astonishing Tribe [video]

The Astonishing Tribe recently explored the future of captive touch screen technology following a 2 week invite for an initiative they called openinnovation.

The Astonishing Tribe recently explored the future of captive touch screen technology following a 2 week invite for an initiative they called openinnovation. Undoubtedly we’ve had the landscape for screen technology change drastically over the last few years. The above video is a prediction for 2014 as it combines stretchable screens, transparent screens and other sharing interfaces integrated into our daily life.

[via HypeBeast]
📅 March 25, 2010

Robot Touch Screen Accuracy Analysis [video]

The aim of this project is to understand which of the existing smartphones are equipped with the best touch screen, and they used robots to draw the lines ( instead of fingers ) , eliminating the human error.

In January, we presented you a touch screen accuracy stress test. Following up on the story, MOTO labs got some more smartphones and they are showing us how their touch screens are performing in production instead of using the finger.

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📅 January 10, 2010

Touch Screen Accuracy Stress Test: iPhone vs Droid vs HTC

Usually, to test touch screen accuracy, there are used sophisticated tools, but MOTO has developed a simple technique anyone can use to evaluate the resolution and accuracy of a touchscreen device.

There is no doubt that the iPhone is the “thing” that decided to make the touch screen available to the average consumer. Because of its massive success, more and more companies are releasing mobile phones and various gadgets equipped with capacitive sensing technology.

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📅 February 23, 2009

iHome – The Power of iPhone’s Touchscreen

New day, new app in Cydia. It’s called iHome and it lets you use the iPhone without the Home Button. Not really explanatory huh? Well , don’t worry, read what you can do with it, watch the video below and than download the app and play with it. At first it will be weird, but once you get used to it’s functions, theres a possibility not to use the home button again.

How to get it?

  • load Cydia
  • click on changes or search for iHome
  • install it

Instructions :

  • Short-range sliding to the left : non-edit mode, scroll the first page, edit the status of cancel edit!
  • Left long slide : ipod playing out ipod controls
  • The right short range sliding : open dialog box for power and respiring etc..
  • The right long slide : lock the phone
  • Long by 5 Seconds will take a screen shot

READ :

HowTo : Use iHome on iPhone and iPod Touch

iHome For Dummies

iHome Concept UI

📅 December 23, 2008

Boost Your iPhone/iPod’s Settings W/ Supreme Preferences


Boost your iPhone/Touch prefferences with this … well…. addon.You can get it from Cydia but, you will need to activate it with winterboard. So let me make myself clear. Download it from cydia, than load winterboard and select it. The springboard will respring and now you will see the icon above instead the normal preferences icon. That means that supreme preferences are activated.

Once you load the supreme preferences, you will notice a new section there ( supreme preferences ) where the majority of the new features are, but it will add some new features among the usual settings. ( note : this will not overwrite your old preferences or something like that. it just adds new stuff )

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