Touch screens are ubiquitous today. But a common complaint is that the smooth surface just doesn’t feel as good to use as a physical keypad. While some touch-screen devices use mechanical vibrations ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...

Nokia has developed a prototype of its N900 smartphone that lets you feel the texture of icons on the screen – a technology that would add a whole new dimension to touchscreen apps. This week, Nokia ...

Researchers have invented a new generation of tactile surfaces that can control the texture of a screen so that the “feeling” of specific areas can be modified underneath a user’s fingertips. This ...

New Apple patent details a tablet stylus which can simulate texture of on-screen objects and surfaces US Patent & Trademark Office Apple is working on a stylus which can simulate the feeling of ...

Macworld On some Apple products, including the M4 iMac, MacBook Pro, and iPad Pro, a feature called nano-texture glass is available. This is something that was first introduced on Apple’s Pro Display ...