Apple desktops now have touchpads too. The new Magic Trackpad from Apple brings the Macbook Pro features to  Mac Pro and iMac owners like multitouch, gestures, over bluetooth.

Basically, Magic Trackpad is a MacBook Pro touchpad on steriods. With 80% more surface area for all those nasty gestures, it’s  a possible mouse replacement that itself acts like a one big button. Some of the popular gestures would include: two-finger scrolling, pinch to zoom, fingertip rotation, and three- and four-finger swipes, all of which can be enabled or disabled in Preferences.

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What could be the most delightful thing that can be done on iPad’s large screen? Of course its drawing!

Though, there are several apps in the App Store that let you tickle around the iPad with some great drawing apps, none of them promise you near Real-drawing experience as iPad lacks pressure sensitivity. The iPad’s IPS panel is NOT pressure-sensitive that’s why you would not get that experience,  but with some clever software and a special capacitive stylus, the folks at Ten One Design built a convincing proof of concept that works in practice.

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Microsoft has released Touch Pack for Windows 7 for anyone with Windows Touch capable devices to download.

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After the lot of buzz around the hackery of Android to get multitouch on Nexus One, Google finally decides to make those features Official.

Google announces that Nexus One users will now be able to receive an over-the-air (OTA) software update on all phones. the current update provides some great new features and bug fixes:

Pinch-to-zoom functionality (MultiTouch): devices will now include a new pinch-to-zoom mechanism in the phone’s Browser, Gallery and Maps .. Read Further »

The US version of Nexus One was launched without any support  for multitouch. We had already discussed that it supported it and was just disabled in the software. A modder has made it possible to get multitouch in the web browser just like it happened for Motorola droid.

Here’s how you can do it.

Step 1: Root your Nexus One (if not already).

Step 2: Download all the mentioned files for:

http://n0rp.chemlab.org/android/nexus/Browser.apk
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You want all your gadgets to go multitouch. How about having multitouch musical instruments. I know multitouch piano is very difficult to use, but idea of multi-touch Guitar may not be as bad as it looks at first sight.

Misa Digital have come up a with a  unique, first-of-its-kind state of the art multitouch guitar. The body, is well finished with ABS. The player puts theirs hands in the same places you would on a guitar but the lack of strings and presence of multitouch .. Read Further »

There had been lots of rumors on iPhone 4G and Apple Tablet aka iSlate. Luckily, new patents reveal that adds fuel to the craze of what apple had been innovating under the hood.

The US Patent and  TM Office published a patent application from Apple’s work on multi-touch screen technology that will power it’s next generation devices.

The  patent has more to do with displays with capacitive elements of the pixels — the system that generates an image on the display also form part of a touch .. Read Further »

Adobe, today, has updated its core  Flash Player to 10.1 and Adobe AIR to v2.

Designers and developers can now build rich Web content for the browser when running the Flash Player on the desktop and mobile alike. Final releases of Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 are expected in the first half of 2010.

It finally became reality after the rumors of Apple’s new mouse.

The Apple’s new Magic Mouse doesn’t have anything on the surface. Instead of buttons, it has a aluminium-based smooth multitouch panel. I wonder how strange it might be to use in the long run.

It features a number of gestures that are, surprisingly, different from Macbook Pro trackpad.

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Here comes Sony’s new VAIO L Series designed to entertain your family. Sony calls it a complete entertainment PC and HDTV. It features a FullHD 1920 x 1080 (1080p) 24-inch MultiTouch screen powered by Windows 7.

The PC supports all major MultiTouch gestures a pro user will expect — Panning, zooming, multitouch drag-drop,etc.

Unlike HP’s Multitouch PCs, the functionalities work throughout the OS, whether it’s Browser or your favorite Image viewer. In other words, it natively .. Read Further »