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In Insert Coin, we look at an exciting new tech project that requires funding before it can hit production. If you’d like to pitch a project, please send us a tip with “Insert Coin” as the subject line. Inventive scribbler Steve King — no, not that one — is working his fingers raw trying to raise $25,000 on Kickstarter
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Insert Coin: Hand Stylus for touch devices
When it comes to digitizer tablets, we more or less have heard of the name ‘Wacom’, and it has certainly stamped its mark in the digital artist category to date with their stable of quality accessories and peripherals. Well, since they are involved in tablet devices (of sorts) for quite some time already, it makes perfect sense for Wacom to diversify their range of peripherals by coming up with the Wacom Bamboo Stylus duo
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Wacom Bamboo Stylus duo lets you write in ink as well
Since so many devices these days come with a touchscreen display, it makes perfect sense that there are moments when you just do not want to use your fingers to manipulate the icons on the touchscreen display itself, be it when you are busy gorging on a bucket of spicy buffalo wings, or when it is freezing cold out there, and you do not want to remove that comfortable pair of wool gloves. Enter the stylus, but with so many choices in the market, just which direction should you go? The Jot Capacitive Touch Stylus from ThinkGeek might just fit the bill, where it feels as though you are holding a familiar ballpoint pen.
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Jot Capacitive Touch Stylus
Five is an important number for Samsung‘s Galaxy Note . It has a 5.3-inch screen and now, just five months since it debuted Samsung has announced it’s shipped five million units (the one million mark was crossed right around the end of December). That’s certainly long enough for you to decide if you’re in love with its super-sized frame or the accompanying S-Pen stylus, but unfortunately it has not been quite enough time for the highly-anticipated Ice Cream Sandwich software update to be released.
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Samsung ships five million Galaxy Notes in just five months
Unfortunately, Samsung‘s Galaxy Note won’t join the Galaxy S II with its own upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich in Q1 as originally announced , since the company has now scheduled its arrival for Q2. It will however, arrive worldwide as part of a “Premium Suite” software upgrade packed with exclusive apps meant to highlight its S-Pen stylus
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Galaxy Note ICS upgrade pushed back to Q2, adds exclusive set of stylus-ready apps (video)
We wouldn’t call it a comeback, but the stylus is definitely enjoying a mini-renaissance of sorts in the world of phablets . So it should come as no surprise to see Amazon patenting an intelligent input device (most likely a Kindle Pen), as well as a “computer-implemented method” for that associated accessory which can read, write, search, print and email annotations and highlights made on digital (ebooks and video) and physically printed works
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Amazon patents intelligent pen for adding annotations to digital and printed media
We wouldn’t call it a comeback, but the stylus is definitely enjoying a mini-renaissance of sorts in the world of phablets . So it should come as no surprise to see Amazon patenting an intelligent input device (most likely a Kindle Pen), as well as a “computer-implemented method” for that associated accessory which can read, write, search, print and email annotations and highlights made on digital (ebooks and video) and physically printed works
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Amazon patents intelligent pen for adding annotations to digital and printed media (updated)
Remember that Sony laptop / tablet hybrid that we spotted on the CES show floor? Well it appears that it will be sporting the VAIO U label when it hits retailers, along the same lines as the outfit’s previous UX ultraportable tag
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Sony VAIO Hybrid lands U moniker in leaked ad, not much else
Folks might think that you might have lost a screw or two when they see you dabbling around with the $9.99 iPound Stylus all over your iPad 2′s display. After all, who the heck in their right mind would actually use a nail as a stylus, especially on something as expensive as an iPad? Glad to know that the iPound Stylus is slightly different from the rest, as it just resembles a nail, but actually, it doubles up as a stylus
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iPound Stylus
Following Samsung‘s launch of the it’s-definitely-a-tablet 10.1 Note , it’s become even more clear that the company’s stylus S Pen is here to stay, in a very big way. Now, it’s time for third-party developers to get sketchy with version 2.0 of the S Pen SDK . The biggest feature boost is the ability to animate drawings to pair with recorded voice, while other additions include SAMM Library access, improved rendering and the ability to revert after accidentally clearing all
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Samsung updates S Pen SDK to 2.0, SCanvasView brings Note animation and narration
Virgin Mobile’s feature phone arm just added a third tier, delivering unlimited talk and texting, along with 50 megs of web access for $40 per month. This offering joins Sprint’s other payLo budget offerings, including an entry-level option that includes 400 minutes of talk time for $20 per month, and a $30 monthly plan that delivers 1,500 minutes, 1,500 texts and 30MB of data
(Credit: Blizzard Entertainment) One week after its release, Diablo III remains the only PC game anyone is talking about .
Nuance, of Dragon TV fame announced today that it was licensing Rovi’s (formerly known as Macrovision ) metadata for its talky-TV platform .
If you’re tired of bananaphones that just make calls, the crew at Gadget Gangster now has a homebrew project to use them for musical escapades. A custom-coded (and appropriately named) Adafruit Propeller board turns a bunch of bananas into the Bananaphone TouchSynth, a synthesizer using the same capacitive touch principles that let a MaKey MaKey turn anything into a controller
Bicom, makers of the Corian -hewn playGo USB will unveil a new AP1 AirPlay device, but only you if help fund it.
Matilda Ceesay, a Cornell fiber science and apparel design major from Gambia, adjusts the anti-malarial garment on model Sandy Mattei. Who knew mosquito nets could be so fashionable?
Plants , like pets, need to be constantly cared for, but not everyone’s blessed with the requisite green thumb. So, for those of you imbued with what we’ll call the bad, brown touch, Swiss outfit Koubachi’s got a cloud-based solution to sidestep those negligent ways and keep your window garden thriving. Dubbed the WiFi Plant Sensor, this wireless peripheral nestles into the soil of any potted flora or fauna, sending relevant vitality data off to the company’s servers where it’s then analyzed and beamed back to your handset (via iPhone app) or online account with care instructions in tow
The HTC 4G LTE will finally land in Sprint customers’ hands this week.
Pentax didn’t wait long after a rather conspicuous leak to make the details official: welcome the K-30, the company’s spiritual successor to the long-serving K-r . The camera makes its biggest numerical jump in sensor size, from 12.4 megapixels to 16, but you’re primarily shelling out for a much tougher body that’s both resistant to rain as well as to dust and temperature extremes; one of the cheapest cameras to do so, if you go by Pentax’s word. We’re slightly down on the light sensitivity being unchanged from three years ago at ISO 100 to 25,600, though you can now shoot video at a much higher 1080p at 30 frames per second — and that French catalog was wrong about a drop in burst speeds, which still top out at a healthy 6 fps.
