You could soon control your iPhone, iPod or MacBook simply by wafting your fingers above the touch pad or screen. Apple is patenting a way to embed arrays of infrared LEDs and light-sensing photodiodes in touch screens (). These sense when a fingertip is hovering above a button, activating additional functions to those available by making contact with the buttons.
Satnav maker TomTom has launched a free online route-planning service that you can use to plan journeys so as to avoid traffic jams. The website () is fed data from TomTom’s European HD Traffic service, which monitors traffic…
