Tag: TOUCH SCREEN

Touchscreens are all the rage when it comes to hand-held devices. People are getting excited about touchscreens on netbooks, and they're quickly becoming a must-have feature of cell phones, too. Yet, when it comes to desktop PCs, touchscreens have failed to make much of an impact. TechCrunch's Michael Arrington found himself wondering why even he ends up reverting to the mouse and keyboard ...

For quite some time now, we have been able to engage computer systems by simply touching an interface, whether it be with a credit card or a bare finger. Increasingly, though, such systems are becoming antiquated. Why bother touching something when you can just almost touch something? The folks at NearField.org, in conjunction with design consultancy BERG, designed the Rube Goldberg-like ...

A new Apple patent has been found that will assuredly warms the hearts (and hands) of many iPhone users currently enduring a cold winter. Originally filed a day before the iPhone's June 28, 2007 launch, it details a glove with a thin, electrically conductive, "anti-sticky" inner layer that is able to function with a capacitive touchscreen. It also suggests the glove could have apertures on the ...

Panasonic announced a new digital still camera that will likely have you wishing your birthday was coming up soon. The FX500 has a high definition movie mode, a 10.1 megapixel image sensor, a 25-milimeter wide angle lens and 5x optical zoom, plus a touchscreen LCD -- a feature that has us rubbing our hands together and getting our index fingers ready for some serious touching. The HD movie mode ...

Riddle us this: what's better than a laptop with one screen? A laptop with two screens! eDetail was at CES this week showing off its award-winning dual screened computer tablet. The unique dual multi-touch screened monster is primarily targeted at professionals and commercial applications, but the company is producing a 14-inch model aimed more at consumers. Professionals can use the laptop to ...

Add dMedia to the list of companies that have caught WiMax fever. The company's next-gen WiMax-based cell phone, the F200, is sure to inspire gadget lust in even the most hardened of cynics. Now that WiMax -- the next-gen, wide-area wireless network -- is beginning to catch fire across the globe, companies like dMedia are rushing to get innovative products to the market that will take ...

This week, during his runway show at Milan Fashion Week, Giorgio Armani unveiled a designer phone that packs some pretty high-tech, advanced features. The handset, which is manufactured by Samsung, boasts a massive 2.6-inch touchscreen, 50 Megabytes of built-in storage, Wi-Fi, GPS and a 3.0 Megapixel camera. The touchscreen is rumored to employ haptic feedback technology, which vibrates the ...

We said it first, and now everyone else is starting to come around. Analysts are saying that next month they expect a refreshed iPod, which will likely use the same big and responsive touchscreen that the iPhone uses. Apple Insider is reporting that we can expect an update of both the iPod and the iPod Nano. Many are expecting the updated video iPod would also use the same big widescreen ...

Never one to rest on its laurels, the Apple rumor mill is hard at work resurrecting a piece of gossip sure to please those who love the iPhone interface, but hate the paltry amount of room for music. Yes sir, the touch screen iPod rumor is back with a vengeance. Of course, now the touchtastic iPhone lends more credence to the rumors, and even Steve Jobs himself has said that a new iPod was in ...

After a few years of taking a beating from Apple on design and innovation, Microsoft is stealing a little of Steve Jobs's thunder. Just a few weeks ahead of the iPhone, Bill Gates (or, actually, Steve Ballmer) has unveiled Surface, Microsoft's new table top computer that features a big-screen version of the multi-touch technology used on, say, the iPhone. But the similarity pretty much ends ...