How can I examine the performance of a touch screen on a smartphone without using special equipment? By saying that,MotorolaMoto Labs, a research group of the company, draws a straight line on the ...

Capacitive touch sensors are entirely in the domain of DIY, requiring little more than a carefully-chosen conductive surface and a microcontroller. This led [John Phillips] to ask why not embed such ...

Earlier this month we shared a DIY touch-screen stylus for the iPad. That build was clever but unfinished looking. This version is polished and what commercial manufacturers should be bringing to ...

In general, iPad styluses follow an incorrect cognitive mapping. The vast majority of them are designed to look and feel like a pen. Why? Writing or drawing on the iPad feels nothing like using a pen ...

After the release of 3D Touch force-sensing input on iPhone 6s, Apple continues its push for the perfect input technology, most recently winning a patent that uses inline proximity sensors to detect ...

How do you introduce kids to a computer in a way that won’t turn them into screen junkies? Try making them build the thing before they use it. [Photo: Kano] With the addition of a touchscreen to its ...