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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Electromechanical switches are simple, cheap, and widely available (Fig. 1). However, they’re also plagued with a number of disadvantages, including wear with repeated use, and the potential for ...

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.

CEO at BrightHR and COO at the Peninsula Group, responsible for the global rollout of HR tech supporting over 44,000 organizations. The last two-plus years have highlighted just how much we rely on ...