Then, speech recognition technology came along, and now has improved to the point where we don't have to touch our gadgets if we don't want to.
Some apps are designed for touch-screen gadgets or for specific hardware.
If you're an electronics fan, you have plenty to be grateful for at this year's Thanksgiving dinner: The dawn of easy-to-use touch-screen gadgets.
Zoomable user interfaces (ZUIs), as they are known, are arriving on the coat-tails of touch-screen gadgets such as the iPhone that have popularised zooming to magnify graphics.With ZUIs (pronounced zoo-ees), information need not be chopped up to fit on uniformly sized slides.
In a somewhat unlikely vision, the companies hope to replace phones with simple touch-screen gadgets in the home that allow elders to communicate and send vital-sign data to their nurse managers via secure Internet linkups.
Before founding Future of StoryTelling, Melcher got his start in book publishing, but began a momentous shift in mission in launching Al Gore's Our Choice app (which The New York Times called, "a showpiece for the new world of touch-screen gadgets," and earned Apple's Best Designed App award).
Twenty-year-old Mai Văn Quý plays the head of a company named 'We have it all', which provides all kinds of services and equipment, ranging from mind-controlled air-conditioning machines to touch-screen gadgets that transmit thoughts.
If you're like most people, your mind immediately leaps to the latest touch-screen gadget or to scientists dressed in lab coats.
But these demonstrations have required that the consumer gadgets touch the charging station.
