Apple acquired Fingerworks, touch gesture company, to create iPhone

engadget.com — It really wouldn't be an Apple device if it didn't involve the practical kidnapping of a pair of inventors and secretive technology buyouts, and the iPhone seems to be no exception. Fingerworks were struggling to keep their dream of gesture-operated gadgetry alive when the company suddenly closed up shop a year and a half ago. Jan 22, 2007 View in Crawl 4