Tag: TOUCH

The Web is teeming with the unrealized ideas of both students and established designers who set out to produce astonishing renderings and prototypes for unusual products. Unfortunately, due to the lack of time, money, or technology, many of those products never progress from the planning stages to the mass market. But that doesn't mean we can't salivate over them, nevertheless. We thought ...

Touch displays are awesome and all, but it sure takes a lot of effort to put your finger to the screen. Couldn't we just do it with our feet? Well, Professor Patrick Baudisch and his research team at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam, Germany have developed a multi-touch floor display called Multitoe, utilizing the concept of frustrated total internal reflection (we had to Wikipedia that ...

With advancements in touchscreen technology, people are rethinking how they interact with their devices. The days of using an external keyboard and a clumsy mouse could soon be long gone. According to Wired, a Portuguese company called Displax has created a thin, polymer film that can be peeled and stuck onto glass, plastic or wood surfaces -- transforming basically anything (opaque or ...

While the iPhone and iPod touch have come a long way since their debut, the iPhone's maximum 32GB (64 on the touch) of storage still seems pretty small -- Apple's classic iPods come with 160GB. Plus, Apple offers no expansion options via external flash storage. The AirStash promises to expand your device's storage with a wireless memory card (takes swappable SD cards) that you can hook up to your ...

In the past, holograms served no real purpose. Sure, they've always been cool to look at, but that's pretty been it -- until now. Reuters reports that a group of Japanese scientists have developed technology that allows holograms to respond to human touch, opening up a world of uses for the 3-D images. The scientists at Tokyo University used ultrasonic waves and Nintendo Wii controllers to create ...

A chic London restaurant and bar called Inamo is making patrons' dining experiences digital by projecting colorful menus and aesthetic patterns onto touch-sensitive tabletops. When browsing, patrons can preview the food as if it were on the plate in front of them -- only flatter, we suppose. They can also order their meals, look up neighborhood services, and select one of seven visual vibes ...

Trying to divine what Apple's up to from patent applications is never easy, but every now and again the diagrams actually make it obvious -- and it looks like Steve and his elves are hard at work on large-format touch interfaces, possibly for a tablet Mac of some kind. The latest touch-related filing is some 52 pages long and details everything from working with multiple finger inputs to ...

We know HTC's got a big announcement coming this Tuesday, and while we can't say for sure it's going to the Touch Diamond, if today's leaked images and specs are at all accurate we think they might have something big on their hands. Check it out: 2.8-inch VGA display WinMo 6.1 Pro WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0 eGPS, FM tuner Quad-band HSDPA 7.2 4GB internal flash, microSD slot 528MHz CPU ...

It's been awhile since the iPhone rocked the mobile world with its simple aesthetics, supple user interface, and overwhelming media hype. The buzz has been silenced as people have long-since settled into the day-to-day routine with their gadgets, but a recently uncovered patent application by Apple indicates that the now familiar iPhone could have looked quite a bit differently at release, or ...

If you've ever had the misfortune of accidentally wearing a red shirt into a Target store, chances are pretty good that you were tapped on the shoulder by some other customer. The store's red shirts are so noticeable that it's hard to not assume anyone wearing red there is an employee. That's exactly the impression a man in Miami Beach, Florida exploited to walk off with $17-thousand worth of ...

The most interesting bit of info gleaned from Wall Street Journal tech guru Walt Mossberg's recent review of the iPod Touch is that Apple confirmed to him that some initial Touch units shipped with defective screens. Anyone keeping up on their iPod news recently has certainly read the reports of users complaining that the screen used in the iPod Touch is far inferior to the one used on its ...

There's sex on the Internet, but if researchers at Northern Ireland's Queens University are successful you might someday be able to have sex over the Internet. And we don't mean steamy text chats or even a naughty video encounter. Currently underway at the university's Institute of Electronics, Communications, and Information Technology is a program to deliver the sensation of touch over the ...

From the iPhone to Microsoft's Surface, devices with touchscreen interfaces are all the rage these days. Now HTC, known for making top notch Windows Mobile phones like the T-Mobile Wing, is adding its own twist on the touchscreen boom with Touch Flo technology. Touch Flo is a gesture-based input technology, which means you don't simply tap icons and buttons with your finger or stylus, but ...