Touch screens have changed the way people use mobile phones dramatically. But gesture controls, augmented reality and larger screen sizes are about to change habits even more, according to mobile ...

Did you know that most smartphones have at least two connections defined by Mobile Industry Processor Interface (MIPI) interface specifications? These specs enable engineers to interconnect essential ...

On a daily basis, we touch and manipulate control screens, keypads, or buttons that may be handled by tens, hundreds, or even thousands of other users. In our worldwide battle to contain the ...

Mozilla's mobile user experience designer, Ian Barlow, revealed some mockups earlier this month of a new Firefox interface intended for tablet devices. The design features a touch-centric layout and ...

It wasn't just cost and Moore's law. The graphical user interface -- now known as the GUI ("gooey") -- is what really made computing widespread, personal and ubiquitous. Its friendly icons and ...

Shortly after the iPhone 4S went on sale this fall, its marquee feature, the Siri voice assistant, sparked a heated debate in the tech world: Was Siri a great computing interface, or was it the ...

A broad portfolio of interface specifications from the MIPI Alliance enables design engineers to efficiently interconnect essential components in a mobile device, from the modem and antenna to the ...

Researchers at Institute for Molecular Science in Japan report that organic solar cells (OSCs) with high mobility and highly crystalline donor (D) and acceptor (A) materials were able to reduce an ...

Microsoft certainly made a big splash with the early preview of Windows 8 it offered this week, and it’s easy to see why: the new platform looks to be a surprisingly radical departure from the ...

Having been a user of laptop computers for more than 10 years now, I continue to be astonished at the lack of progress that has been made in making my life easier. We’ve recently seen major ...

The use of gestures and movement to control mobile phones has already started to take off and will change users' habits even more than touch screens, expert says Touch screens have changed the way ...