Abstract: A touchscreen device may have a secondary touch-enabled gesture input mechanism located near one or more edges of a touchscreen. The gesture input mechanism may sense several gestures, including swiping, sliding, zooming, tapping, and other gestures, and may cooperate or supplement similar gestures that a user may make with the touchscreen. The gesture input mechanism may be located parallel to one edge of a touchscreen, such that a user may operate the input device without blocking the touchscreen. The gesture input mechanism may be located on a parallel, perpendicular, angled, or other surface with respect to the touchscreen. Some devices may have gesture input mechanisms located around one or more sides of the touchscreen.

Abstract: A touchscreen device may have a secondary touch-enabled gesture input mechanism located near one or more edges of a touchscreen. The gesture input mechanism may sense several gestures, including swiping, sliding, zooming, tapping, and other gestures, and may cooperate or supplement similar gestures that a user may make with the touchscreen. The gesture input mechanism may be located parallel to one edge of a touchscreen, such that a user may operate the input device without blocking the touchscreen. The gesture input mechanism may be located on a parallel, perpendicular, angled, or other surface with respect to the touchscreen. Some devices may have gesture input mechanisms located around one or more sides of the touchscreen.

Abstract: A touchscreen device may have a secondary touch-enabled gesture input mechanism located near one or more edges of a touchscreen. The gesture input mechanism may sense several gestures, including swiping, sliding, zooming, tapping, and other gestures, and may cooperate or supplement similar gestures that a user may make with the touchscreen. The gesture input mechanism may be located parallel to one edge of a touchscreen, such that a user may operate the input device without blocking the touchscreen. The gesture input mechanism may be located on a parallel, perpendicular, angled, or other surface with respect to the touchscreen. Some devices may have gesture input mechanisms located around one or more sides of the touchscreen.

Abstract: A set of portable devices may be paired together to share a combined set of connectivity options. Each of the portable devices may have one or more connections to external networks, and may be paired to each other such that one device may use the external connection of another device. The pairing system may evaluate connectivity strength, battery power, and other factors for routing connections between devices to external networks. Incoming connections, such as cellular telephone calls, may be selectively routed to one of the various devices in certain circumstances and a different device in other circumstances. An incoming phone call may be answered and responded to by any of the connected devices, even though the connection may have been originally received by a different device.

Abstract: A computer implemented method in conjunction with a touch screen companion computer device which provides an interactive graphical user interface interoperable with each of a plurality of computer systems and accommodates an upgradable, exchangeable, and user removable Central Processing Unit (CPU) Card that includes all major components such as the microprocessor, RAM, Flash Memory, all critical chips, SD card and SIMM Card Connectors and other critical components, a touch screen computer enclosure device which includes all major external connectors and hardware such as power connector, battery, Wireless radio Antennas, USB connectors, HDMI, the LCD and other common features, and one or more programs which detect wired or wireless connections, connected device types, active running applications on the remote connected plurality of computer devices, and configuring the touch screen companion device based on user preferences, predefined configurations, or configuration files provided by computer applications b

Abstract: A rotating-energy electrical production system includes an elongate central substantially vertically extending bar structure including an exterior helical thread portion extending therearound from an upper region thereof to lower region thereof, and a free-to-rotate disk structure encircling the bar structure, the disk structure having an interior helical thread portion engaging the exterior helical thread portion of the bar structure for helically winding counter-rotation therebetween under the force of gravity acting on the disk structure.