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 [...]
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Posted 17 February 2010
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What if you could “touch” and poke your Facebook friends? In the future, this may be possible. Star Trekâs 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 âtouchedâ. By blending a holographic display, a couple of [...]
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Posted 14 August 2009
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Sharp intros âworldâs first optical sensor LCD padâ netbook Named Mebius, the PC has a 4in, 854 Ă 480 input device that â according to Sharp â is much more than a âconventional trackpadâ. Why? The padâs ability to recognise drawings and text using the bundled stylus, and to perform the same finger-based functions â [...]
Following up on Apple Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cookâs comments during yesterdayâs Q1 conference call, and the supposition that he was hinting that Apple may just take legal action against the Palm Pre for violating Appleâs intellectual property (i.e. patents), PC Mag quotes a reaction from Palm: A spokeswoman at Palm said Thursday that the [...]
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Posted 25 January 2009
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N-trig Sets New Industry Standard for Full Multi-Touch Capabilities on Large Format DisplaysVideo Demonstrating Full Multi-Touch Now Available for Viewing on YouTubeN-trig, the provider of DuoSense⢠technology combining pen and zero-pressure touch for mobile and fixed computers into a single device, announced today that its DuoSense⢠technology now has full multi-touch capabilities designed for large [...]
Hewlett-Packard (HP) has launched its TouchSmart tx2-1003AU touch screen notebook in Taiwan. The notebook features an AMD Turion X2 RM-74 processor, 250GB hard drive, ATI Radeon HD 3200 GPU with 64MB DDR2 sideport memory and 12.1-inch WXGA capacitive touch panel. Quanta Computer manufactures the notebook for HP. HP pointed out that it plans to abandon [...]
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Posted 16 December 2008
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N-trig, providers of DuoSense(TM) technology – combining pen and capacitive touch in a single device – announced their offering of an in-the-box suite of multi-touch solutions for Windows 7. N-trig’s multi-touch technology will be demonstrated on a Windows 7 platform at WinHEC, booth number 502. N-trig’s pen and multi-touch technology offers all the benefits of [...]
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Posted 11 November 2008
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Fujitsu senior product director Paul Moore in an interview published today revealed plans by his company to introduce multi-touch computers while simultaneously downplaying the significance of the technology. Following in the footsteps of an early development in Dell’s Latitude XT, Fujitsu tells Wired it plans to release PCs in mid-2009 that accept multi-finger gestures but [...]
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Posted 03 October 2008
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LAS VEGAS, January 7, 2008 â Bordeaux, France-based JazzMutant, a pioneer developer of multi-touch sensing technology, announced today at the International CES that it is launching an OEM business unit in response to a growing demand for its multi-touch solutions by electronic device manufacturers and third-party system integrators. In addition, the company is being renamed [...]