Amazon has patented a system that pulls the pointer toward a link or button, just the thing to help you click links – and buy products associated with those links.

Tap and go. Image: USPTO

If you've ever hit the wrong button or link on a touchscreen, you know the frustration of tapping repeatedly and still missing the link or button. Amazon's Gravity-Based Link Assist patent fixes that by creating a gravitational field of sorts around linkable objects that pull the pointer toward tiny links and buttons.

Although the patent clearly benefits the company (if you can't click a link, you can't buy a product) the online retailer (and Kindle creator) notes in its patent that the technology has accessibility potential. "Some users may lack the fine motor skills desired to operate a variety of input mechanisms due to declining health, injury, etc.," it notes.

So go ahead, be willy-nilly with your taps on future Amazon products, they got you covered with everyone's favorite law: gravity.