Mobile phone users who have always longed for a touch-screen phone have reason to rejoice, for new software renders the entire casing and LCD display of a standard phone sensitive to touch - or, rather, the sounds of touch.

Called TouchDevice, the software can convert your regular, ordinary phone into a touch screen phone, on which you can scroll through menus, browse or zoom; all by swiping, tapping or scratching a fingertip along the side of the phone.