OLED panels aren’t quite flexible enough to allow for structures that large to pop up. However, when layered atop the new embedded electroosmotic pumps, enough of a bump can still be formed to ...

Researchers covered a touch screen in gel that can harden into buttons of all shapes and sizes so you can use the display even if you can’t gaze at it.

BlackBerry and iPhone users might argue endlessly about which keyboard is better, but a new prototype display could bridge their divide: It combines touchscreen technology with physical buttons ...

It’s not quite as configurable as a touch-screen, as the design is limited to where you place the button-holes (ha!). But the rear projection offers a fair degree of on-the-fly customization and ...

A new touch screen can transform its flat surface into real physical buttons for smartphone or tablet owners. The morphing screen technology could give mobile device users a keyboard experience on ...

A Californian start-up has developed transparent buttons that rise up out of a touchscreen, and claims that the sheet only takes up the same amount of room as a layer of transparent glass.

A sub-layer of the panel would be punctured with 200-nanometer holes, through which fluid would be pressed to raise the flexible surface of the screen when the operating system called up some buttons.