Atrua Technologies of the US have announced the world’s first mobile phone touchpad, Atrua Wings. That’s right, a little touch pad on yer handset providing games and applications control and fingerprint security for buying stuff. But heaven forbid that you would want to lend your phone to the wife, kids or other close family members eh?

‘Atrua Wings, the world’s first family of products to utilize haptic processing – the science of human touch – to convert finger movements into powerful user commands, secure passwords and intuitive, responsive controls for mobile phones.’