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 ...

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 ...

Touch screens can only get so small before the user’s fingers start to block most of the information on them, but a technology called nanotouch that’s being developed by Microsoft Research and the ...