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Hidden multi-touch feature on HTC Touch Diamond?

Cool. Looks like the HTC Touch Diamond (and presumably the HTC Touch Diamond Pro) can actually do multi-touch. Not only multi-touch on the screen itself, but all the way down around the navi-wheel and...

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Hidden multi-touch feature on HTC Touch Diamond?

Cool. Looks like the HTC Touch Diamond (and presumably the HTC Touch Diamond Pro) can actually do multi-touch. Apparently it’s just around the navigation buttons that the multi-touch works – not the...

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Blizzard will store customized UI settings server side starting with Lich King

Some players do not mess around, from Wow Insider Really good news for serious World of Warcraft players. It looks like Blizzard, starting with Wrath of the Lich King will store all your customized UI...

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Alternative Android user interfaces that didn't make the cut

Android is now available—yeah, it’s true—but you’re hard-pressed to find any review that raves about its user interface. (Ryan Block, of Engadget fame, called it “very raw” last week on Tekzilla, which...

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Your touchscreen phone may someday feature pop-up buttons

Wow, hats off to some of the eggheads at Carnegie Mellon. They’ve developed a touchscreen that can actually produce tactile buttons by using latex, acrylic, and a little air pump. Imagine a...

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Crocodile keys hope to improve text entry accuracy

The more time I spend using computers, the more I realize that the ways in which we interact with them suck. Typing is a pain, and I’m very inefficient using a physical keyboard. When using an...

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Crazy scratch UI to create cheap, unpowered touch surfaces

The same guys who brought you the bubble input have created a crazy scratch UI that allows you to scratch and tap almost any surface. By sensing the sound and the finding the peaks and valleys in the...

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HTC Sense UI for Android may be getting sweet, sweet multitouch

Who could have guessed that simple gestures like pinch-to-zoom would make or break a phone experience for some people? With Android 2.1 slowly rolling out to most Android handsets out there, HTC...

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AirSwing: Toshiba's gesture-based UI system in action (video)

Natural user interfaces using gestures aren’t really new, but AirSwing, a technology developed by Toshiba, offers something unique: it neither requires expensive hardware nor substantial CPU resources...

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Xbox 360 Fall Update Beta Is Live

If you haven’t powered up the ol’ Xbox 360 yet this evening, and you signed up for the Xbox 360 System Software Beta, you might want to go do that now. It’s live, and apparently has some very tasty...

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User Experience And The Poison On The Tip Of The Arrow

 I used Path twice. None of the people that I know are using Path. I even checked with an early adopter of social media recently and one of Path’s earliest users. She told me that she doesn’t see a lot...

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Oblong Industries: “The UI Is All You Have, The UI Is The Computer”

 Our own Josh Constine is speaking to Oblong Industries at TechCrunch Disrupt today, and they’re discussing the future of human interface when it comes to technology. Kwindla Kramer and John...

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Conceptual Designs Push Innovation Forward: Check Out This Instagram Of The...

 I’m a big fan of conceptual designs. Basically, designers who love to look at things and want to make them prettier will mock up what they think a product should be. One of the hottest properties in...

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Pitching App Ideas? AppGyver Delivers Mobile App Prototypes In Minutes, No...

 Although there are a ton of DIY app builders out there, the majority of them are either designed for those with a little bit of coding know-how, or involve drag-and-drop components which are used to...

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AppSeed Relies On Computer Vision Tech And Your Phone To Speed Up UI Design

 Digital designers point your eyes at this neat Kickstarter project which is utilising computer vision tech to speed up the early stages of the design process. The basic idea is to give designers a way...

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Twitter Tests Cleaner Web Client Design With More Prominent Logo And Tweet...

 Twitter is testing a new website design, which opts for a lighter, flat design that seems at least partly inspired by its shift to similar design trends on mobile. The screens below were sent in by...

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Twitter’s Web Presence Might Soon Break Away From The Vertical Timeline Flow

 There’s a new Twitter redesign making the rounds, first spotted by Mashable’s Matt Petronzio, and it changes things considerably. Tweets no longer flow vertically in a single column like they do now,...

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Apple Adds New “Designing Great Apps” Micro Site For iOS 7 Developers

 Apple has offered up a central location that houses a number of resources around designing software for iOS 7. The collection of videos, documents and whitepapers seems aimed at making it easier for...

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Apple Patents A Strange Physics-Based GUI For iPad File And Folder Manipulation

 Apple had an interesting patent granted to it today by the USPTO (via AppleInsider), which describes a graphic user interface on the iPad that more closely resembles a desktop arrangement of files and...

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This Tiny Sensor Turns Your Thumbnail Into A Trackpad

 Like the football phone or the Dick Tracy two-way wrist radio, humankind has always dreamt of melding two technologies together to create a synergistic improvement on our meager, exhausting existence....

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