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Daily iPhone App: Blot

by Mike Schramm (Jan 30th, 2012)

There's a lot of buzz around cloning apps lately. Zynga recently received some flak for making a clone of Tiny Tower, and there's a big lawsuit around Triple Town and its clone Yeti Town. I would argue that there's a right way and a wrong way to clone an idea. Blatant rip-offs are obviously wrong. ...

Apple investigates hover gestures

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 27th, 2011)

Apple was awarded a patent on Tuesday for a hover sensitive device that accepts input from finger movements above the device's display. The patent describes the usage of "real-world" gestures to control a device equipped with a touch or hover-sensitive display. Hand and finger movements include ...

Patent Roundup: 'Hover' touch surfaces, liquid-cooled laptops

by Robert Palmer (Dec 4th, 2008)

Two Apple patent filings have piqued interest this week: One for a touch surface that detects where your finger is hovered above it, and another for a liquid-cooled laptop. The hover surface works by measuring light reflected off your finger at various wavelengths to figure out where it is over the ...