During South Korea's brutal winter of 2010, frustrated glove-wearing smartphone users learned that they could use sausages instead of their finger. This hack became so popular that one sausage ...

Products like touchscreen gloves are so ubiquitous that it’s easy to take them for granted. But have you ever considered how these modern marvels actually work? While wearing a pair on a trip to ...

From Disney World to the smartphone in your pocket, fingerprint scanners have become commonplace these days. Even budget phones sport the tech, sometimes alongside other biometric unlocking options ...

If your iPhone's touchscreen is not working, try to force-restart the phone. After rebooting it, the screen is likely to work ...

British mathematician Hannah Fry digs into the science of touchscreens on mobile phones. Using a sausage, she explain how touchscreens work by detecting changes in the electric field, and how anything ...