Hold on to your pants: Microsoft ‘PocketTouch’ enables device input through fabric (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
Todd Bishop / GeekWire:Hold on to your pants: Microsoft ‘PocketTouch’ enables device input through fabric — Microsoft researchers have come up with a way to make devices sensitive to touch input through fabric — for silencing a phone or even entering text without taking the device out of a pocket or bag.
Patent suit challenges motion-based input with Apple’s iPhone 4 (Katie Marsal/AppleInsider)
Katie Marsal / AppleInsider:Patent suit challenges motion-based input with Apple’s iPhone 4 — A new lawsuit takes aim at the accelerometer- and gyroscope-powered abilities of Apple’s iPhone 4, alleging that the interactive, three-dimensional input methods are in violation of a U.S. patent.
