Lenovo educates us on the history of the tablet, has 'exciting products to announce this month' (Monday 15th of February 2010 08:34:00 PM)
Okay, Lenovo totally knows how to use Twitter. The company's press account has punched out a
teasing little note, inviting us to keep a close eye on the near horizon with the apprehension
of exciting new substance to come. We'll concede that aside from ...
(more)MyFord Touch yields three screens and a Ford from Microsoft Auto 4.0 (Thursday 07th of January 2010 05:01:00 AM)
User endure -- the focus of any savvy user televisions company (though not all) looking to
differentiate itself in a market saturated by imitators. Now an auto company is hoping to
capitalize on this root tenant of modern consumerism: Ford. With the ...
(more)Sony and Atracsys develop 3D interface for ORs, sci-fi franchises (video) (Friday 06th of November 2009 04:37:00 PM)
You know what the world needs? Another company peddling their take on the touch graphical user
graphical user interface as being "just like Minority Report!" Sun, Raytheon, Oblong -- it's a
pretty obvious press hook (as well as a pretty awesome area ...
(more)Nokia X6 video hands-on: proof that capacitive touchscreens are better (Saturday 05th of September 2009 03:54:00 PM)
While Nokia wouldn't invite us to Nokia World this year, we were fortunate enough to detect a
pair of its new X6 handsets on the IFA floor here in Berlin. On hand were two social work
prototypes, one of which was peeling away from its ...
(more)Nokia X6 confirmed to sport a capacitive display, we can finally exhale (Wednesday 02nd of September 2009 06:23:00 PM)
Ladies and gentlemen, our long, global succubus is over. Alright, that's a meaning
overstatement -- but Nokia's lack of capacitive embracement has unquestionably hurt opinion of
its 5800 and N97 models, the first to use its touch-ready S60 5th Edition ...
(more)Sharp's 5-inch PC-Z1 NetWalker honors Zaurus legacy with touchscreen Ubuntu (Thursday 27th of August 2009 09:51:00 AM)
Fanboys have been running Ubuntu on Sharp's deceased Zaurus lineup of PDAs for years. Now
Sharp makes it orthodox with the launch of this 5-inch, 1024 x600 TFT LCD touchscreen NetWalker
smartbook, aka the PC-Z1. It's not a Zaurus per se, but the compact ...
(more)Probably-fake video roundup: 24-inch iPhone OS, PS1 emulation on the Pre (Monday 15th of June 2009 07:27:00 AM)
This video of iPhone OS 2.x running on a 24-inch multitouch monitor from Swedish design firm
Dreamfield is almost certainly fake, but hey -- it's Sunday night, nothing's going on, and we
were considering cap about how well touch-specific systems would ...
(more)Video: Archos 9 pctablet resistive touchscreen impresses (Friday 12th of June 2009 10:22:00 AM)
Archos attempt to reanimate the UMPC category of devices got off to a good start yore in Paris
with the launch of its 16-mm thick Archos 9 pctablet -- a 8.9-inch 1024x600 pixel tablet riding
an 800MHz or 1.2GHz Atom Z515 processor, 1GB of memory, ...
(more)Verizon's iPhone-like Hub 2 hands-on (Thursday 16th of April 2009 04:56:00 PM)
We had a chance to sit down and play with Verizon's next iteration of its Hub (already guys?),
and while it wasn't a mind-blowing affair, they do seem to making some moves in the right
direction. Firstly, the new version is detached from the handset ...
(more)Video: Bumptop gives Windows 7 touchscreen PCs purpose (Wednesday 08th of April 2009 08:07:00 AM)
Bumptop has been around as a video concept for a few years. Now this amazing desktop organizer
with a physics engine underpinning the UI is possible for log in (PC only). The dos allows you
to bump and toss weighted objects across the desktop and ...
(more)Apple patent filing suggests a safer in-car touchscreen (Monday 30th of March 2009 04:04:00 PM)
As the Tesla Model S has amply demonstrated, while in-car touchscreens can doubtless turn a
few heads, they aren't always the safest, or most practical solution. Apple seems to have a few
ideas about how to change that, however, and one of its afresh ...
(more)Tesla Model S official shots unofficially unveiled (Thursday 26th of March 2009 06:25:00 PM)
Kevin Rose has some Tesla Model S imagery up on his Flickr account, including the first
unshrouded cine of the car, along with a rather wild internality shot. The all-electric sedan
is styled beautifully -- if rather predictably -- but things start to ...
(more)Windows 7 Touch logo program detailed, Release Candidate "at the end of May" (Thursday 26th of March 2009 02:22:00 PM)
In a bid to help consumers recognize PCs optimized for new Windows 7 multi-touch controls,
Microsoft has started... (can you guess?)... a logo program. Not that those "Vista Capable"
stickers were of much use. Just think, now our new convertible laptops ...
(more)Apple files patent for gesture-based text editing (Friday 26th of December 2008 03:58:00 PM)
An Apple patent unearthed by Mac Rumors named Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards
suggests a future charge the company might be taking which would substantially change
interaction with devices like the iPhone. by the numbers to the document, the ...
(more)Sony's long awaited touchscreen Walkman finally revealed? (Friday 12th of December 2008 05:36:00 PM)
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'http://digg.com/hardware/Sony_s_long_awaited_touchscreen_Walkman_finally_revealed'; Sony's
Walkman series of media players has done its best to keep stride, stuffing in new looks and
design refinements over the years, but touchscreen-dominated ...
(more)Giant International's touchscreen Intouch IT7150 photo frame: disembodied hand not included (Wednesday 19th of November 2008 09:48:00 PM)
Not that we'd expect any reputable digital picture frame erector to consort with a real, live
hand model, but we've gotta hand it to Giant International for discovering this particularly
unnatural, eerily glowing appendage to point vaguely at its new ...
(more)BlackBerry Storm review (Thursday 20th of November 2008 04:36:00 AM)
digg_url = 'http://digg.com/gadgets/Engadget_reviews_the_BlackBerry_Storm'; By now most of us
have heard this story in one fashion or another: when Steve Jobs and Apple were in the planned
safety* stages of the iPhone, the first carrier they brought ...
(more)Verizon's LG Dare touchscreen contender available tomorrow for $200 (Wednesday 25th of June 2008 03:16:00 PM)
Filed under: Cellphones Verizon wireless telephone isn't kidding around with this new Dare
phone from LG: it'll hit Verizon's online shop tomorrow (the 26th) for $200 with a $50 rebate,
and then land in retail on July 3rd. We've had little time to get ...
(more)Microsoft intros the TouchWall -- maps will never be the same again (Thursday 15th of May 2008 05:13:00 PM)
Filed under: Displays
If you've been calorie positive integer CNN's polls coverage lately (and
we think you have), then you've perchance seen anchor John King tripping the light fantastic on
the channel's Magic Wall touchscreen. Apparently, Microsoft ...
(more)WWDC to launch a 3G iPhone and Atom-based MID device? [updated] (Thursday 15th of May 2008 10:45:00 AM)
Filed under: Cellphones, Handhelds, haulable Audio, wieldy VideoHonestly, we're wearied by the
sheer amplitude of 3G iPhone chatter swamping the rumor channels (and our inbox). Nevertheless,
it would be a disservice to you, dear reader, if we let this ...
(more)Touch Table EES "edutainment system" is large, edutaining (Tuesday 19th of February 2008 06:21:00 PM)
Filed under: Gaming, Home Entertainment, Household
We're blown away by how much of a behemoth
ToyQuest's Touch Table EES unit is, but perhaps that's what kids are into these days. The
"table" is really a swiveling TV with touch capabilities and some edutainment ...
(more)The 42-inch Eee PC TeeVee? Yes, and more (Wednesday 30th of January 2008 06:23:00 AM)
Filed under: Desktops, Home Entertainment, Laptops
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'http://digg.com/tech_news/Asus_Launching_21_All_in_One_Axes_Eee_PC_With_Touch_Screen'; Just
as we feared, Asus is getting ready to dilute their Eee branding until it's RAZRed down ...
(more)Lumin's MultiTouch display does... uh, multi-touch (Sunday 27th of January 2008 06:20:00 PM)
Filed under: Displays
If you've absolutely, no catch* got to have a multi-touch display system
right this second, look no further than the Germany company Lumin and its creatively named
MultiTouch. For an undisclosed price (available on request) you and ...
(more)HTC Polaris gets specs leaked, renamed the Touch Cruise (Friday 19th of October 2007 03:58:00 PM)
Filed under: Cellphones
The next step in the HTC Touch line -- the GPS-equipped Polaris --
has been re-christened the Touch Cruise, and has gone and gotten its juicy specs all leaked out
to the internet. In addition to having improved TouchFlo capabilities, ...
(more)ThinkSecret "confirms" 3.5-inch touchscreen iPod with hard drive (Tuesday 04th of September 2007 08:06:00 PM)
Filed under: lightweight Audio, transportable VideoThinkSecret is tooting its own horn with a
supposed confirmation they've obtained of an iPhone-sized (3.5-inch), hard drive-based,
touchscreen iPod -- ThinkSecret started talking up a touchscreen iPod ...
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