Tactile Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple keyboard gets touchy-feely with wooden tactile mod

by Steven Sande (May 2nd, 2011)

This seems to be the day for keyboards. First, I wrote a review of the Scosche freeKEY flexible and water-resistant Bluetooth keyboard. Now we have word from CreativeBits of a wonderful keyboard mod that uses the tactile feel of sandblasted wood grain on a standard Apple keyboard to "strengthen ...

Turn your iPhone or iPod touch into a gamepad with stick-on buttons

by Sam Abuelsamid (Nov 7th, 2010)

Software developers have been able to do some amazing things with games on portable devices like the iPhone and iPod touch, but just as some people prefer to type on a physical keyboard, gamers occasionally miss using a gamepad. A Japanese company has come up with a stick on plastic nubs that you ...

Rumored tablet could include dynamic tactile surface

by Mike Schramm (Dec 24th, 2009)

As a guy who still kind of winces at the iPhone's touch surface sometimes (especially when playing games -- you don't realize how nice buttons are until you see a character die because your thumb's in the way), this is extremely interesting news: Apple's rumored tablet, which we've been hearing a ...

Ten crazy iPhone cases

by Mike Schramm (Apr 9th, 2009)

I ended up going with an iSkin Revo for my iPhone as a thin little protective case, but now that I've seen some of these crazy cases, I'm reconsidering just a little bit. Who wouldn't want to encase your iPhone in what appears to be bacon, or try out the tactile iPhone case above (which transmits ...

Swype could make typing easier on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Sep 15th, 2008)

Still haven't caught on to typing on that little non-tactile keyboard on the iPhone's screen? This little tech, from the creator of the T9 system (dreaded by some, loved by others) being shown off at TC50, could be just the ticket. Swype is kind of like a gesture-based system, except that it uses ...

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