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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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Posted 31 January 2010
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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 [...]
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 [...]
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Posted 16 January 2010
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For students and professionals, taking notes, sending and receiving emails and making one-to-one presentation only got easier with the launch of the world’s first convertible tablet netbook from Asus. The one-inch thick, 0.96kg Eee PC™ T91MT features a multi-touch screen that supports Windows 7 multi-touch gestures. The Eee PC™ T91MT’s multi-touch capabilities are further enhanced [...]
There’s no question multi-touch enabled hardware is going to be invading many homes and offices in the years to come, and it’s exciting to see how some software makers are already building applications that take full advantage of the multi-touch experience, aided by support baked into modern operating systems and increasingly powerful graphics processors. But [...]
