May 21, 2013

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Swiftkey celebrates 500,000 Downloads on Black Friday

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Swiftkey has surpassed 500,000 downloads   on Black Friday.One of the most highly reviewed virtual keyboard apps is SwiftKey. The app doesn’t use any gimmicks like expanding and shrinking keys like ThickButtons, or allows you to swipe letters on the keyboard (Swype), but is simply a well-designed traditional keyboard. If you are bi-lingual, SwiftKey can handle [...]

World’s first “Ice touchscreen display” built by Nokia NRC Tempere

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Researchers from the Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland, have turned a wall of ice into a huge interactive touchscreen display. Using infrared emitters and detectors to determine hand location and movement, the team projected images onto the blocks of ice so that users could see flames behind their hands. Happily, users didn’t need to [...]