Mobile devices such as smartphones are truly amazing in what they can do, but are often frustrating to use – many people don’t particularly enjoy poking at tiny buttons, or obscuring the onscreen display with their own fingers. Newly-developed technology, however, is addressing these annoyances. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute have found a way of turning mobile devices into their own mice…
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