Does anyone remember the Surface? You know, the multitouch table from Microsoft. It can sync with Zune and your Bluetooth cellphone that rests on top of it. The Surface recognizes the device instantaneously and displays it on the table content so you can gesture and multi-touch photos and videos as you like. Such technology, surely, [...]
Continue reading...1. February 2008
HTC makes Windows Mobile handsets. The problem is that Windows Mobile is slow to respond to the competition (iPhone). HTC’s solution is to develop additional features on the Windows Mobile platform resulting in a GUI that though not exactly as pretty as the iPhone GUI can, nevertheless, pass as an alternative. That was the HTC [...]
Continue reading...28. January 2008
Somebody over at CrunchGear just discovered that the “biggest problem with the Kindle” is that you can’t read it during take-offs and landings. I’m not entirely sure if the rationale behind that is that it looks like a laptop, therefore bad, or it has the same electronic configurations as a laptop, therefore interfering with the [...]
Continue reading...10. January 2008
Clipta - new video wave: CES 2008 Elantech multitouch trackpad Apple’s decision to put multi-touch technology on its first phone certainly paid dividends. So why not put the technology on a MacBook? Before we start looking into the not-too distanct future (MacWorld 2008 begins in a few days), here’s a company in Taiwan showing off its [...]
Continue reading...10. January 2008
Touch screen gadgets are really not much to marvel at these days, but the Bello touch screen PMP is a thing of beauty that deserves a few minutes of your full attention and admiration. Besides the sheer simplicity of its design, whats notable about the Bello PMP is that it doesn’t just stop at [...]
Continue reading...3. January 2008
Good God, I didn’t know that LCD panels could come in paper-thin, paper-sized form. But LG Philips shows us that yes, they can! They announced that they’ll be showing off their new 14.3-inch fexible e-paper display at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. It’s got 16 million colors, 1,280 x 800 [...]
Continue reading...2. January 2008
Microvision’s portable projector cannot be mounted on Motorola phone just yet. Nevertheless, the company has a PDA-sized gadget that’ll wow the ants off industry insiders at the Consumer Electronics Show. The device is aptly code-named SHOW and it will be capable of projecting a 12 to 100-inch 848 x 480-pixel WVGA image for 2.5 hours. We [...]
Continue reading...5. December 2007
We’ve already told you enough about Google’s interest in the 700MHz spectrum that will be on auction in January of next year. Now we’ll tell you who are the other players. From Engadget: AT&T; T-Mobile says it already has plenty. Cox Communications; Time Warner and Comcast aren’t biting. Frontline; gunning for the D block. Google; might just do the [...]
Continue reading...6. November 2007
Nokia presents the most advanced Haptics technology, giving tactile feedback to a virtual keyboard on a touchscreen that resembles a real physical keyboard. The problem in perfecting the tech – codenamed Haptikos, meaning ‘to touch’ – lies in how our fingers experience a key press. We actually feel two movements, in and out, and these movements [...]
Continue reading...30. October 2007
We’ve never done a post for lefties, so here it is now: meet the PXi concept phone for left-handed people. It s designed by Bence Bogar with lefties in mnd. The 3.3-inch touchscreen handles both stylus and finger input and has a screen that adjust when you hold t vertically just like the iPhone. On [...]
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4. February 2008
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