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When you think about it, there’s no reason that biometric recognition can’t provide security on tablets — well, aside from the need for a sensor thin enough to fit on a slate.
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Fujitsu dabbles in palm reading, hopes to bring biometric sensors to tablets
There are all sorts of ways to go green these days, from driving an EV to installing super efficient light bulbs , and now Logitech’s given us an environmentally friendly way to type tactilely on a tablet. It’s a new iPad and iPad 2-friendly case called the Solar Keyboard Folio, which packs a Bluetooth keyboard powered by ambient light using the same solar cell tech found on the firm’s computer keyboards . Once topped up with photons, Logitech claims its battery will keep you typing for over 1,000 hours even in complete darkness
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Logitech unveils its Solar Keyboard Folio for the new iPad and iPad 2, we go hands-on
Logitech announced its Ultrathin Keyboard Cover for the new iPad and iPad 2 a couple of weeks ago, and today we got our grubby mitts on the thing. In case you forgot, it attaches to your Apple tablet like a Smart Cover when not in use, but perhaps you didn’t know that those magnets secure the slate in stand mode as well. And secure is the operative word, once you slot your slate in, it takes a concerted effort to dislodge it — plus, there’s virtually no shaking of the screen while typing away on the keyboard
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Hands-on with Logitech’s Ultrathin Keyboard Cover
Looking to get your goods on a BlackBerry smartphone or tablet now that the new OS has been shown off ? If so, you’re in luck
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BlackBerry App Generator makes app building a breeze for smartphones and PlayBook tablets
Back in 2008 , a nifty little box of tricks elbowed its way onto the market — the Tonium Pacemaker . A gadget about the size of an OG PSP, with a complete DJ set-up hidden inside. It was a brave idea, and one that was fondly received.
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Pacemaker DJ app for BlackBerry PlayBook impressions (video)
The iPad was made to do many things, but windowed multitasking wasn’t one of them. Leave it to the Cydia Store to provide a new app that delivers individual, rotatable, scalable, untabbed windows. Quasar, from developer Pedro Franceschi, let’s you do just that across multiple apps — without relying on home button double-taps or tricky multi-finger gestures
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Quasar gives the iPad untabbed windows for ten dollars and a jailbreak (video)
Let’s not speak of the several months it took for Ice Cream Sandwich to finally begin showing up on Samsung devices. Rather, the fine mobile-loving folks in Canada should just take a brief moment to embrace the present and not-too-distant future, because Samsung is now officially rolling out its long-awaited Android update to the nation up north — complete with the latest version of TouchWiz — to select devices today and continuing throughout the rest of the quarter
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Samsung Canada begins rollout of ICS today
If you’ve been looking for a reason to replace your aging device with something a tad more contemporary, your local pawnshop GameStop is happy to oblige.
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GameStop to offer Android tablet and smartphone trade-ins, give you another excuse to upgrade
This one is still very much unconfirmed, but a “trusted source” recently provided Neowin.net with the image you see above, which purports to be a mockup of a forthcoming business-minded tablet from HP dubbed the Slate 8. That’s obviously a Windows 8 tablet and, if the details are to be believed, you can expect a 10.1-inch display, eight to ten hours of battery life, optional pen-based input, a docking station of some sort, an outdoor viewing option and a number of business-friendly security measures — all in a package that’s 9.2mm thick about 1.5 pounds. Adding some weight to leak is ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley, who hasn’t been able to confirm it outright, but says that after a bit of investigation she is “inclined to believe this is a real mock-up and is part of HP’s line up of business desktops and laptops it will be touting this year.” Business-minded HP ‘Slate 8′ tablet surfaces in leaked image originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 27 Apr 2012 12:38:00 EDT
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Business-minded HP ‘Slate 8′ tablet surfaces in leaked image
We’ve seen some pretty clear indications that the Kindle Fire was rapidly gaining market share among Android tablets, and ComScore is now out with a new report that indicates it recently crossed a big milestone.
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ComScore pegs Kindle Fire at more than 50 percent of the US Android tablet market
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.
