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Section: Apple, Software + Apps, Miscellaneous, iPod + iTunes, iPod touch, iPhone + Communications, iPhone, iPhone SDK & Apps, Mac + Computers, Peripherals When the original iPhone was introduced what now seems like so long ago, it sparked a revolution. The Multi-Touch interface that came with the iPhone changed the future of computing.

Apple's latest patent app: multi-touch plus (insert technology here) by Chris Ziegler, posted Sep 4th 2008 at 8:52PM Multi-touch hasn't necessarily revolutionized the way we're interacting with our devices, but it's certainly a step in the right direction -- particularly when a touchscreen is such a huge part of the overall input equation as it is with the iPhone.

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Remember when I said the GUI would become the gesture-based user interface or GBUI? I mentioned Apple's patents in the blog entry and now a new patent application shows Apple is looking to fuse gestures, voice, the camera and motion sensors together to create a brand new interface.

I-play announced today that puzzle nerds who own an iPhone or an iPod touch can now download Jewel Quest II from the Apple App Store.  Based on iWin’s successful franchise involving a fun and oftentimes maddening (I owe a few gray hairs to it) search for hidden treasure via bobbles, Jewel Quest II can now be yours for the taking.

We’ve seen a good number of Windows Mobile themes that are designed to mimic the look and feel of the Apple iPhone, but now it seems that the emulation is going the other way. Someone has designed a new theme for the iPhone 3G that takes on the same appearance as the HTC Touch Diamond.

Apple has been working in new multi-touch technology that combines touch interfaces with input from the camera and the microphone. For example: this will allow you to select text in the iPhone, say “copy,” go to another application and say “paste” to make this task really easy.

According to a recent 30 page US patent filing, Apple has been tinkering with a multi-touch system that will integrate visual and voice data into the control systems for its devices. Filed by Wayne Westerman and John Elias, co-founders of Fingerworks, a firm that had been acquired by Apple prior

Qik, the popular live streaming mobile phone video app, is now available on a variety of new Windows Mobile enabled phones including select HTC devices. New support includes: • HTC Touch Dual • HTC Touch Diamond • HTC TyTn-II • AT&T Tilt • Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 Qik added mobile video blogging to the Apple iPhone just last week.

Apple’s multi-touch system definitely revolutionized the world of touch screen displays, but the fruity company has recently filed a patent for a multi-touch system that incorporates both voice and visual data into the control system itself.