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 ...

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 ...