The folks at Microsoft Research are working on a new way for you to interact with your smartphone that involves a lot less touching than usual. The idea is that you should be able to control apps, browse through content and adjust settings simply by gliding your fingers over the screen, without actually touching it. That’s not entirely novel in itself – Samsung’s Air View allows some of this functionality in select apps that it’s developed, while Sony had shown off a similar feature called Floating Touch in its Android 2.3-based Sola handset. However, Microsoft’s research is about allowing much richer…
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