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Hold on to your pants: Microsoft ‘PocketTouch’ enables device input through fabric (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)

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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.

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Patent suit challenges motion-based input with Apple’s iPhone 4 (Katie Marsal/AppleInsider)

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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.

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