USB Multi-Touch Smart Pad We’ve seen the power of multi-touch displays thanks to the iPhone and iPod touch, and Brando wants to get a piece of the action as well with their new USB Multi-Touch Smart Pad. Apart from being such a device, it also doubles up as a numeric keypad for those budding accountants. [...]
HTC Touch HD HTC Touch HD: multi-touched by the hand of Ballmer? Pictures and video of a mysterious leaked handset running HTC’s TouchFlo 3D OS suggests Windows Mobile 6.5 will embrace multi-touch. If Windows Mobile 6.5 does support multi-touch, it’ll put it back in the game against the iPhone and finger-friendly Android phones like the [...]
What if you could “touch” and poke your Facebook friends? In the future, this may be possible. Star Trek’s Holodeck has just became a little closer to reality with news researchers from the University of Tokyo have developed a technique that allows 3D holograms to be “touched”. By blending a holographic display, a couple of [...]
Schematic’s giant interactive outdoor display facilitates wayfinding and social networking at the festival. At Cannes this year, delegates will literally be the first to get their hands on a new kind of interactive out-of-home installation. The multi-touch wall from Schematic, a WPP digital company, is a 12-foot by 5-foot display that provides a visual interface [...]
Microsoft’s top Windows business executive said Monday that for all his excitement about Windows 7, he doubts the release of the operating system will lead to a significant spike in PC sales. “History would tell us that generally as you ship a Windows release into the market…the bump is very modest,” Microsoft senior vice president [...]
The last MacBook standing. Apple’s lowest-end laptop occupies a special place in the Mac spectrum. As of WWDC 2009, it’s the last MacBook standing in the lineup–all the other Apple notebooks are now MacBook Pros. The MacBook (we can call it “the” MacBook, now) also is the last to retain the polycarbonate white plastic glossy [...]
The Asus Eee PC T91, which we fondled fondly at CES, has a few new tricks up its sleeve in the multitouch and Windows 7 department, but sadly these features won’t make it in time for launch this month. Previously, we knew about the netbook’s touchscreen and hefty £449 ($670) price tag (for an Atom-based [...]
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Apple has been awarded a number of new patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week. Two of the patents give Apple a firmer hold on its multitouch and touchpad surface technologies and the iPhone’s case design. An important patent for a touchpad surface titled Force imaging input device and system covers the [...]
Video demo of the HP TouchSmart TX2 tablet PC running Windows 7 RC 64-bit with multi-touch features. N-trig DuoSense™ Multi-Touch Beta Package (2.59) for Windows 7 Release Candidate The DuoSenseTM multi-touch package for Windows 7 Release Candidate enables ISVs and developers to experience the Hands-onTM effect, and allows software applications to be developed with integral [...]
Saturday, May 09, 2009 – 11:43 AM EDT “Apple has seeded developers with a new version of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard),” Arnold Kim reports for MacRumors. “The build (10A354) adds one particularly interesting new feature to Apple’s Mac operating system: Chinese handwriting recognition specifically for multi-touch capable machines,” Kim reports. “This could open [...]
