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Someday, the iPad and iPhone will shed even their Home button.
At least, that’s the thought behind some new features discovered in the new iOS beta. Version 4.3, which was released to developers earlier today, has several new gestures in place. They enable navigation without ever touching the Home button, letting you...
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A new patent filing from Microsoft (of all places) hints at a “textured touchscreen”: a tactile surface that could change shape at will. Is this the beginning of the end of physical keyboards?
Here’s how it works. The screen, coated with a “shape-memory polymer”– think memory foam– can...
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One day, we’ll probably phase out cash altogether (which I’m terrified of, and pretty much firmly against). Until then, pretty much the only way we receive cash is through the use of one particularly depressing little machine (if Douglas Adams’ robot Marvin were real, he’d definitely be one). I’m...
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