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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 [...]

What if you could “touch” your Facebook friends? Welcome to the future. Holograms you can feel.

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 [...]

Sharp intros ‘world’s first optical sensor LCD pad’ netbook

Sharp intros ‘world’s first optical sensor LCD pad’ netbook Named Mebius, the PC has a 4in, 854 × 480 input device that – according to Sharp – is much more than a “conventional trackpad”. Why? The pad’s ability to recognise drawings and text using the bundled stylus, and to perform the same finger-based functions – [...]

Palm Comments on Apple Multi-Touch Patents

Following up on Apple Chief Operating Officer, Tim Cook’s comments during yesterday’s Q1 conference call, and the supposition that he was hinting that Apple may just take legal action against the Palm Pre for violating Apple’s intellectual property (i.e. patents), PC Mag quotes a reaction from Palm: A spokeswoman at Palm said Thursday that the [...]

N-trig Sets New Industry Standard for Full Multi-Touch Capabilities on Large Format Displays

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 [...]

Taiwan market: HP launches multi-touch notebook

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 [...]

N-trig Offers Multi-Touch Solutions for Windows 7

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 [...]

Fujitsu plans multi-touch tablets for 2009

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 [...]

JazzMutant Will Now Make Its Patented Multi-Touch Sensing Technology Available on an OEM Basis

LAS VEGAS, January 7, 2008 – 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 [...]