With the iPhone and iPad, Apple completely transformed touchscreens with pinch-to-zoom and scrolling content, but there's just one small problem: using those interfaces pushes content off the screen. A new elastic-like touchscreen interface by researchers at the Osaka University can fix that by keeping content on the screen.

Hello, my name is Kevin and I still prefer to play games with a mouse and keyboard. Yep, on a rig I put together myself. I'm one of those people. Call me a Luddite, but I just can't get into...

What good is a touchscreen phone if you can't even use it when the weather is freezing your fingers off? The next generation of touchscreens might make that pesky problem a thing of the past.

Japan has a love affair with vending machines. You can get anything, from hot coffee to hot noodles to fresh fruit to cigarettes, from the ubiquitous machines. So it's only natural that they'd jump on the touchscreen vending machine bandwagon first.