The future of touch screens might allow you to feel things through the screen. New deformable touch screen technology, named DeformIO, has been developed by scientists at Britain's University of Bath.

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Touch screens on the MacBook Pro haven't arrived yet, but Apple is working on inventing a force-sensitive display for the line — and maybe a revamped Touch Bar, too. But it's been looking into it. Not ...

In this digital age, our fingers have learned to love touch screens. They provide an easy, intuitive way to navigate our devices to make them do our bidding. But so far, our fingers haven’t felt any ...

Volkswagen will launch its flagship ID.7 EV with haptic touch controls on its steering wheel, and purely touchscreen-controlled infotainment. But it may be the last VW with this control scheme, ...

Apple was recently granted a patent that describes a wild-sounding MacBook touchscreen keyboard that might use haptic signals to physically raise portions of the screen to morph into new keyboards.

Ever since touchscreens started finding their way into cars around 20 years ago, interior designers have been trying to figure out what to do with all the switches, buttons and knobs. Take them away, ...

While the iPhone 4 may already be sleek and slender, pulling it out of your pocket or bag every time you need to use it can sometimes be slightly troublesome. Future iPhones could eradicate this ...

InterPublic’s Scott Susskind at a touch-screen display. The store of tomorrow is ready for business today. It’s prosaically called the Retail Center, and it’s at InterPublic Group’s Emerging Media Lab ...