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‘Table Connect’ Turns iPhone into (Fake) Big-Ass Table

This is the Table Connect, a rather wonderful-looking hardware hack which connects an iPhone to a 58-inch capacitive multi-touch display, allowing full control of the IPhone’s navigation functions, only using hands instead of fingers. Or is it? Look closely and you’ll see that the demo-guy presses the sleep-button on the top of the iPhone as [...]

Multitouch casing could remove buttons from iPhone, iPad

by Keith M (via: tuaw) Back before the iPhone was formally announced, there was talk that Steve Jobs was simply not happy with the product because Apple’s engineers couldn’t figure out how to eliminate all of the physical buttons. There was just no practical way to put the functions of a power switch or home [...]

Multi-touch floor on the way, German researchers say

From iPhone to multi-touch tables, the leap has now been made to a touch-sensitive floor. The researchers are presenting their work at a user interface conference in New York next month. While multi-touch screens are becoming more and more commonplace, German researchers are now working on integrating this same technology into floors. Users would interact [...]

iPad competitor? New HP TouchSmart 310 PC offers improved multitouch-based software

Today HP has launched its latest Touchsmart 310 all-in-one computer today starting at an amazing $699. HP’s new TouchSmart 310 all-in-one PC sports a 2.8 GHz AMD Athlon II dual-core processor…and TouchSmart Apps. Hewlett-Packard has taken the wraps off its latest touch-driven all-in-one consumer PC, the HP TouchSmart 310, sporting a slim 20-inch multitouch-enabled display [...]

(Video) MSI’s Wind Top AE2420 3D all-in-one PC

In April, NEC announced plans to release a 3D all-in-one (AIO) desktop PC sometime this year. In the all-in-one world, the MSI Wind Top 2420 3D can be considered an overachiever. Not content with merely offering a stereoscopic display, this PC is going for broke by incorporating multitouch capabilities as well. They were probably hoping to [...]

Wired’s Tablet App is Impressive and Raises Questions

Wired has demoed an application for a Tablet that is running on Adobe AIR and yes it is demoed running on a Tablet. Publishers are certainly hoping this kind of effort is the future and that they will figure out a way to entice us all to pay for these things. The jury is still [...]

Multitouch in Chrome OS? Maybe, But Don’t Hold Your Breath

The hype around Google Chrome OS has died down a bit now that Googleunveiled its first operating system (not accounting for Android on the mobile front). Scheduled to debut in time for holiday season 2010, Google still has a lot of work ahead of it and, while we have a general idea of what the [...]

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Hey, My name is Brice Royer, I’m a volunteer and one of the community managers of Jeff Han’s Multi Touch Technology Archives. The reason why I’m interested in multi-touch screen technology is because I had a physical disability for several years. I couldn’t use computers and felt very frustrated. My intention is to help you [...]

Fujitsu sexy new multi-touch Handheld PC UH900 now in Japan

Announced last year in Singapore then unveiled at CES the UH900 is now also released in Japan. Not much to say here since the spec are pretty much the same with an Atom Z520 CPU at 1.33GHz, 2Gb of ram but with only 30gb of SSD instead of 62gb in Singapore, and WiMax. But the [...]

DigitalRise X9 multi-touch screen tablet looks like an Apple

If you expected the next generation of tablet PCs to be light on your pocket, think again. The DigitalRise X9 could be mistaken for the Apple tablet, but with a built-in NES game emulator and Windows 7 OS we quickly realize it is not. With a decent 10.2” multi-touch screen that is dust, scratch, and [...]