Mobile

The Norwegian firm Elliptic Labs’ booth at CES next week will feature several implementations of a touchless, gesture-based interface for tablets and mobile devices, according to the company. Unlike the Kinect, Elliptic’s interface, called Ultrasonic Touchless Input, graphs hand movements using echolocation. Bathing the user in a silent ultrasonic torrent, it measures the return time of rebounding sonic impulses to ...

Perspectives on the FCC's recent net neutrality ruling leave us thinking about the the rise of the app and the enclosure of the commons.

Confounded by fruit and other technologies; video after the jump.

Are you doing the Boston Typewriter? Perhaps we're lucky that when it comes to marketing, viral video has its limits.

In the app store, no one knows you're a dog.

Engineering beneficial computer viruses to protect wireless devices, researchers learn to treat time as a network.

A business-machine brand and icon of twentieth-century design jumps into the tablet race.

Google engineers send their latest smartphone into the upper atmosphere, extending the reach of the do-it-yourself impulse into space.

A new remote-control ball controlled by a smartphone app seems less like magic than a kind of undead.

By slowing down your music, this app helps you keep below the speed limit. Whether it makes driving safer or not, it's a reminder that augmented reality is about more than images.