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The five hints Apple is working on a tablet
News That might seem like a small change, but it's important if you're browsing with just a finger on a touch-sensitive surface. The new Coverflow option to browse through past sites visited as well as sites... [17 Jun 2009]
Finger Vein Authentication
White Paper Vein patterns are different for each finger and for each person; and as they are hidden underneath the skin's surface, forgery is extremely difficult. Finger vein authentication is a new... [11 Jun 2009]
Photos: From wine tasting to choosing a mortgage
Photo Tasters can select the characteristics of the particular wine they are drinking from the options in the centre, and rate it by moving their finger around the score slider next to the coaster. Third party developers were... [19 Mar 2009]
Photos: Future tech at Microsoft Innovation day
Photo You can change the car's colour by placing your finger on the appropriate parts of the brochure. Also created by Virtual Events, this is a floor that reacts to your movements much like Microsoft's... [06 Dec 2007]
Gates: 'My work here is not yet done'
News Of all the new ways of interacting with computers, the one that seems to be gaining the ground the quickest is multi-touch, where people use multiple finger gestures to manipulate objects on a screen. [19 Oct 2007]
Photos: Microsoft's Zunes get a remix
Photo Instead of pushing the sides of the main navigation button to move around, a user can simply slide a finger across the button's surface. Microsoft on 2 October announced three new versions of its Zune... [03 Oct 2007]
Photos: Microsoft Surface in depth
Photo When you place a finger on the screen, it reacts as if you have disturbed the water above the pebbles. This table-like device is actually a demonstration of Microsoft's Surface technology, which the... [02 Oct 2007]
Photos: Microsoft's touchscreen tabletop PC
Photo Consumers can add their own music selections to the public playlist with the touch of a finger. Mark Bolger, director of marketing for Microsoft's surface-computing effort, shows off the company's new... [30 May 2007]
'Look at my new gadget': phrase plagues IT managers
News You can now fit a whole company database onto a device the size of your finger," he added. But even those companies with policies in place are only really scratching the surface. The number of employees... [10 Jan 2005]
'Let there be light': keyboard is a shining innovation
News The chipset consists of three basic parts: a light source that beams a blanket of infrared energy onto a surface, a sensor that tracks finger movements, and a pattern projector that displays an image of... [31 Jul 2003]
Japanese man fools biometric sensor with fake finger
News Using $10 worth of ingredients, Matsumoto made a gelatine finger model. Using a microscope and digital photography tools he lifted a fingerprint from a surface, printed it onto transparent paper, and... [17 May 2002]
