In a series of experiments in the 1980s, Roland Johansson, a professor of physiology at Sweden’s University of Umea, demonstrated just how important touch is. In one, he filmed a woman picking up a ...

Bumps and lines make up touch-based technology such as Braille. But the human sense of touch is keen enough to detect differences that are much smaller. Research by Charles Dhong and his group at the ...

In the workforce, the operating room, and at home, haptic technology could turn touch into something more meaningful. So much of our standard technology already capitalizes on human touch—smartphones, ...

While we’re waiting for new redesigned MacBooks next year, a new patent application was published by the US Patent & Trademark Office today revealing a new version of the Touch Bar that looks exactly ...

Future iPhones and iPads could have a radically different touchscreen system, if a just-revealed patent comes to fruition. The patent, spotted by Patently Apple, focuses on using radar. Yes, radar.

Today’s smartphones and tablets have made us all pretty familiar with touch screen technology, but its origin actually goes back to the mid-1960s. The first commercially available touch screens ...

Acoustic touch A research team member who is blind uses the new smart glasses to locate and reach for an item on the table. (Courtesy: CC-BY 4.0/Lil Deverell at the Motion Platform and Mixed Reality ...

How can haptic feedback, which uses vibrations to simulate real touch sensations, be improved to provide more accurate data to users? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address ...

There's a lot of talk about Apple's shift to a new screen technology with the "iPhone 8," but fewer conversations about how it will all work — AppleInsider explains what changes Apple will likely need ...

Touch sensitive displays have changed the way we interact with electronic devices everyday, evolving from single to multi-touch displays that can recognize multiple contacts. Now researchers at Disney ...

Photo Caption: Handicapped man in wheelchair and his girlfriend on a beach at sunset. Cloud technology is revolutionizing customer service in travel and hospitality. By passing routine requests ...

Design enthusiast Lisa Vanderpump partners with Febreze to bring ‘touch-n-sniff’ experiences to hundreds of homes CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Febreze has reinvented the way people refresh their homes ...