Apple has been granted a patent for a next-generation Apple Pencil that uses optical sensors to work across a wide range of ...

New Apple Patents Cover “Micro-gesture” XR Input, Head-worn Haptics to Guide User Attention. By. ... Apple covers the use of “micro-gestures” as a means of controlling XR devices.

Apple's U.S. Patent No. 8,433,828 for "Accessory protocol for touch screen device accessibility" covers specialized techniques for controlling a device with touchscreen inputs using an non-touch ...

Thanks to creative minds that build assistive technology devices, physically challenged people do not have to give up computing. Computers work by accepting input from people and providing output ...

We take sweeping input gestures -- like pinch and zoom -- and ultra-accurate desktop mice for granted, but it wasn't that long ago that they were invented. Here's a look back at the input devices ...