Apple Removes FingerWorks.com Content

Apple has removed all content from FingerWorks.com, five years after acquiring the company. This could just be coincidence but MacRumors hypothesizes that this could be another step in preparation for the tablet release.

The removal seems to correspond with the impending announcement of an Apple tablet later this month. One possible explanation is that Apple will finally be implementing many of the same advanced multi-touch keyboard gestures that were originally pioneered by Fingerworks.

Recent reports point to a possibly complex amount of multi-touch gestures for the upcoming tablet. MacRumors dug up an old press release that describes the FingerWorks gesture keyboard for Macs.


The MacNTouch Gesture Keyboard is a complete user interface that serves as mouse, standard keyboard, and powerful multi-finger gesture interpreter. Mouse operations like point, click, drag, scroll, and zoom are combined seamlessly with touch-typing and multi-finger gesture everywhere on the MacNTouch's surface. Proprietary hardware and software allows pointing right over the keys, thus eliminating the frequent movement of the hand between the keyboard and the touchpad. The MacNTouch has been designed to minimize stress and it gives users unprecedented control of their computer using hand gestures.

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