That's not a speaker, it's a button on the Kindle Touch. But that's the only button it's got. When you first start up the device, some of the basics about touch interactions are spelled out on screen.

advertisement 04-28-2014 TECH Every Button On This Touch Screen Is Actually A Tiny Robot Robots function as hooks, knobs, and more in this desktop interface from Brooklyn-based Patten Studio.

The screen is relatively deeply inset, thanks to the optical touch recognition (the same tech, and the same inset, is present on the Nook Simple Touch), and the surrounding gray bezel is just wide ...

Virtually every smartwatch now uses touchscreens, but it didn’t use to be this way. The Pebble was the last stand for hardware buttons on smartwatches. But, like the company, the idea has fallen ...

The literal flexibility of OLED screen technology has allowed us to create everything from tablets that fold in half, to TVs that disappear into furniture. But researchers from Carnegie Mellon ...

Try this modest exercise: Without looking at the screen, pick up your iPhone and watch how fast your finger lands on the home button. Pretty darn quick, I’d imagine. Now consider what might ...

The redesigned Home button in the iPhone 7 is no longer a physical button -- it's flush with the iPhone and uses haptic feedback to give the sensation of button presses.

The lack of haptic feedback suggests that the difference between using Tesla's built-in touch screen and doing something objectively dangerous, like texting while driving, is merely a difference ...

Corsair's iCUE NEXUS Companion Touch Screen impressed us with what's possible with a finger swipe or a touch to the screen.

Today's touch-screen devices seem like a thing of the future, but the technology that runs your iPad or Android can actually be traced back to 1948 and something called the Electronic Sackbut.

Are you having problems with the responsiveness of your touchscreen on your iPhone or iPod Touch? Apple has detailed the symptoms and the suggestions on how to test it and what to do to get it ...

A touch-screen remote at first glance seems like an obvious evolution over the button-festooned scepters of yore, but the Logitech Harmony Touch is a significantly worse remote than many ...