Trading gas nozzles for electric sockets may be the green thing to do — in more ways than one — but wouldn’t plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles be that much sweeter if you could just forget about the plug?
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Evatran’s Plugless Power gives your wheels a wireless proximity-based charge
The iPhone 4 ’s massive launch hasn’t been blemish free, with reports of spotty displays (which seem to have disappeared) and antenna woes being rather widely reported. Well — it looks like it’s possible there’s another issue too — this time with the proximity sensor. Now, we’re no strangers to spontaneously turning on speakerphone with our faces (though admittedly our cheeks are pretty round), so it’s hard to say if this is an iPhone 4-specific issue, but the mounting reports would suggest that it’s possible the new handets sensor is a little bit…
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Is the iPhone 4 having proximity sensor troubles?
If you’re reading this from a Samsung i8910 or Palm Pre , you’re already holding a Cypress-powered touchscreen, but chances are you’ve never given it a thought. That’s going to change, because this week the company demoed a killer app: TrueTouch screens that can detect fingers hovering over glass, not merely on it, allowing compatible software to finally register mouseover input
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Cypress touchscreens track hovering fingers, make devices even more ‘magical’ (video)
Never say the USPTO doesn’t have impeccable timing: on the eve of Apple’s tablet launch (and on the very day we finally realized that we’ve been looking at the same set of Apple patent images in loosely-related filings since 2004), the Patent Office has granted Apple some 13 patents, including #7,653,883 for a proximity-sensing multitouch screen. That’s right, granted — as in, Apple can file lawsuit if others infringe these ideas now.
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Apple granted patent for a proximity-sensing touchscreen
