When Pocket-lint was a kid, we weren't allowed to touch our TV. Our mum thought that the picture emitted radiation. But that still didn't stop us touching it to collect the static to give our sister a shock.

And, although that was fun, it's...

Apple has been awarded a crucial patent regarding touchscreens, one it first applied for way back in 2007.

Following Apple patent applications is both a laborious and tedious affair. Hardly a day goes past without the web buzzing about yet...

Inamo is about to open its new flagship restaurant on London's Regent Street, and Pocket-lint was invited down for a sneak peak.

Now, you may be wondering why a technology website is interested in a restaurant opening. Well, let us explain...

Inamo...

Microsoft has filed a patent for the touchscreen of tomorrow, where you can actually touch what is being displayed. Well, sort of.

The tactile touchscreen patent works by tricking you into thinking you are touching what you can see, rather...

With two touchscreens and a severe lack of anything even remotely keyboard-ey, we get hands-on and snap happy with the new Toshiba Libretto W100 and find out what it's all about.

You'll be able to type using the bottom of the two screens...

At first glance the Toshiba Libretto W100 looks kind of like what you'd imagine the bastard offspring of a seedy affair between a Toshiba netbook and the Nintendo DS might look like. But the W100 isn't a quirky little games console - it's a Windows...

LG has announced another successor to its surprisingly-popular LG Cookie handset, called the Cookie Fresh GS290. It's a full-touchscreen handset, with a pile of social networking functionality.

So much so, in fact, that there's a dedicated...

Welcome again to Future Week on Pocket-lint. As much fun as it is looking at all sorts of interesting gadgets and services that could be ready in 5 years' time, now is the moment to spare a few thoughts for those that will have dropped off the map....

The user interface is big business right now. In truth, it always was, but it's taken the mass popularisation of the iPhone to bring it the public agenda. Until then, a good interface was one which you didn't notice. If no one mentioned it, then it...

Moto Labs has done a bit of testing in its labs to find out whether a touchscreen is a touchscreen, no matter the manufacturer. Turns out it's not.

The project applied medium pressure in a grid pattern to a series of touchscreens - on the iPhone,...

Digitimes is reporting that Acer has plans to build a rather revolutionary-sounding new laptop which doesn't have a back casing on its screen - it uses the back of the screen's glass substrate instead.

The plan uses toughened glass from Corning...

South Korea's sausage sales have soared by 40% following a bout of cold weather and some smart chap discovering that CJ Corporation's snack sausages have electrostatic properties that are rather similar to that of the human finger.

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Toshiba has announced a whole range of laptops, and amongst the pile is the touchscreen-equipped U500-1EX notebook. It's got a 13.3-inch display, but this ain't no netbook - instead packing a range of more high-end specs than your average ultraportable.

Performance...

A Yorkshire company has successfully employed a quantum physics trick to create pressure-sensitive touchscreen technology that it's managed to license to Samsung and Japanese touchscreen manufacturer Nissha.

The breakthrough uses spiky conducting...

Samsung Mobile Display has announced that it'll soon begin mass producing a touch function AMOLED panel - a product that it claims is the first of its kind. The 3.3-inch WVGA display will start rolling off conveyor belts in March.

I know what...