Physical touch of any kind drives up the brain's oxytocin levels, for both men and women.
In the case of EPOS, we're shown a stylus that, in addition to offering traditional physical touch input, also allows users to interact with a device via ultrasound.
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Sandusky started with wrestling, to make physical touch seem normal.
With touchscreen interfaces, though, designers can create the illusion of acting on information and content directly, manipulating it like a physical object that you can touch and stretch and drag and nudge.
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Even with physical keyboards, modern phones need touch screens to control movies, games and other tasks beyond the BlackBerry's roots in messaging.
According to a pamphlet obtained by datacider, the MEDIAS family will soon be welcoming a Gingerbread-powered N-06C, which closely resembles the N-04C except for the extra 0.2mm thickness plus 10g weight, as well as touch buttons instead of physical ones.
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Sadly, with a mess of WiFi signals and Bluetooth devices at the Las Vegas Convention Center (TV Connect included), navigating TV Connect's Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean interface could only be done via physical buttons -- the TV Touch remote is otherwise advertised to interact with the camera by placing a cursor on screen, navigable by physically pointing the giant remote at your screen.
Real physical communication - what if you could touch your loved one via your mobile phone?
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Even cooler is that fact that all of these properties can be applied to a scene as complex as the galaxy image above with physical properties that can be manipulated by touch on a standard issue iPad or any fairly modern mobile device.
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The thinner Touch Cover is serviceable but the physical Type Cover is a dream considering its size.
Any professional service that does not require physical interaction (or pay for very high touch service), and which is complex enough to benefit from more than a phone call, is a good candidate.
The Q10 will have a physical keyboard, while the Z10 has only a touch-screen keyboard.
This is far more convenient, but we found all the physical controls to be very hard to find by touch.
Again, transferring a traditional activity of reading with your children from a physical book to duplicating that experience digitally, complete with touch, topped with interactivity with the page, words and sound.
It's a natural positioning once you've got your fingers firmly positioned in the crook on the back of the device (of course there are no physical page turn buttons here, unlike the Nook Simple Touch).
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The Q10's touch screen is significantly smaller, to give space for the physical keyboard, and looks similar to the recent BlackBerry Bold models.
Sprint, for example, will only be launching the Q10 (which comes with the traditional, physical QWERTY keyboard), while T- Mobile will only commercialize the touch screen-only Z10.
"People from the communities like to touch you, to embrace you, to hug you, and physical contact isn't my strong suit, " he told Maclean's magazine recently.
Republicans, meanwhile, consider high-speed rail the physical embodiment of runaway spending, imposed from Washington by an out-of-touch elite despite its whiff of European socialism.
There are still things in the physical world that are going to be important: expert advice and the ability to see and touch the latest tablets.
Developers will be able to translate some of the metadata attributes of individual pieces of content on the screen into physical properties that affect how the surfaces on which that content is represented move or react to touch.
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Even as engineers stuff ever more gigahertz and gigabytes under the hood, the shell and shape of a phone is the only part that we ever touch, and the only part that is really a part of our lives in any physical sense.
By measuring every move, heartbeat and step and relaying that to a coach on the touch line in less than a second, the technology enables a better understanding of the physical and physiological impact on the team, or any individual, during a game or training session.
If Clementi had a touch of middle-aged fastidiousness, Ravi was fully a teen-ager: rangy, physical, with a taste for public regard.
Earlier this year there were rumors about Apple ditching the physical home button on upcoming iOS devices, and now we have what appears to be a new iPod touch prototype matching such description, courtesy of CrunchGear via Mr. Blurrycam.
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The Springboks stepped up their physical intensity as England began to wilt, allowing winger Mvovo to burst through a weak tackle from Chris Ashton and touch down for his first Test try, converted by Morne Steyn.
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