Android 15 adds a new touchpad gesture called tap dragging. Tap dragging lets you drag and drop objects by tapping the touchpad and then immediately putting your finger back on the touchpad and moving ...

Windows laptop trackpads used to be a big headache, causing frustration for many users. In a 2011 ZDNET article by James Kendrick, he expressed this frustration vividly with the question, "Why do PC ...

Google is working on a new menu for customizing the three-finger tap gesture for touchpads. The new menu will let you set a three-finger tap to do a middle click, launch Gemini, go home, or view ...

This video introduces the new 3DTouchPad from Microchip, an ingenious development platform for 2D as well as 3D tracking and gesture recognition. The 3DTouchPad provides multi-finger 2D surface ...

When using a touchpad instead of a mouse, built-in gestures come in hand. So instead of holding and scrolling using the mouse, you can use two fingers together on the touch to scroll. But what if the ...

Apple’s MacBooks come with a built-in multi-touch trackpad that supports a wide range of gestures to help you perform various operations efficiently. Likewise, its external trackpad, Magic Trackpad, ...

Virtual desktops in Windows offers an alternative to using multiple monitors, especially if you learn the gestures ...

Trackpads on laptops have come a long way over the years, and that does double for Windows machines. These input devices used to be tiny, sluggish, and only able to detect a single touch input.

One of the market leaders in touchpads, Synaptics, last week ported its multi-touch, gesture-based touchpads to Linux. It promises that the touchpad software is compatible with these six distros: ...