Multi-Touch Click-Wheels?

Having pioneered multi-touch for its iPhone and iPod touch handhelds, Apple later extended the technology to trackpads on its Mac notebook line and now appears ripe to introduce the first iPod click-wheels with similar capabilities. 
Though sales of the iPod touch have taken off in recent quarters, recent reports suggest that we haven’t seen the last [...]

Report: New iPhone Components Shipped | Apple Sued Over Multi-Touch

Handset component suppliers have begun shipping parts for the new iPhone, according to a Commercial Times report.
Taiwan-based handset component suppliers have begun shipping components and parts for the new iPhone that Apple is likely to launch in June, the Chinese-language Commercial Times has quoted sources at component suppliers as indicating.
Shipments of the old and new [...]

Apple awarded key “multi-touch” patent covering the iPhone

Apple last week was awarded a monstrous 358-page patent covering the touch screen, graphical user interface, and methods that combine to define the iPhone user experience.
Dating back to September of 2007 and granted last Tuesday, U.S. Patent No. 7479949 lists many inventors; notably, Apple co-founder and chief executive Steve Jobs, iPhone software director Scott Forstall, and FingerWorks [...]

Apple Patent Reveals Interesting Multi-Touch Swipe Gestures for iPhone’s Virtual Keyboard

MacRumors has revealed a new patent application filed by Apple at US Patent Office called Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards.
The patent application is authored by Fingerworks founder, Wayne Westerman. The patent application reveals some interesting gesture based features that could make it to iPhone’s virtual keyboard.

Apple’s patent suggests the use of swipe gestures to be [...]

Snatch for your iPhone - Get your mind out the gutter - It’s a Trackpad for your Mac

There were rumors going around and a couple well crafted photoshops of Apple’s new Notebooks using iPhone/Touch like glass multi touch trackpads that double as displays. Well everything was right about those rumors except for the display part. The new Apple Trackpads used in their new unibody MacBooks and MacBook Pro’s are glass, multi touch, [...]