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Touchscreens can’t differentiate between you, your friend or your cat. Truth is, they’re actually amazingly simple pieces of technology without much in the way of brains. A new type of display shown off at the International Nanotechnology Exhibition & Conference in Tokyo last week does imbue the panels with at least enough smarts to tell people apart.
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Gunze’s new touchscreen tech knows who’s touching it
You can more or less say that Apple’s smartphone has changed the way we look at smartphones – previously, those tend to be behemoths in their own right, sporting an extremely large form factor with most probably a QWERTY keyboard snuck in somewhere – be it a slide-out keyboard or a horizontal clamshell format. Touchscreen keyboards have certainly taken off since the iPhone’s introduction to the world in 2007, and they are set to stay. In fact, many other devices these days come with a touchscreen display – anything less than that, and chances are your fingers themselves would not feel comfortable
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Pocket touchscreen could be the future
While this might not be the first kid-centric tablet we’ve seen, it’s certainly got the coolest name. All we know about the MEEP! kiddie-slate right now is that it’s made by Oregon Scientific , has a 7-inch touchscreen display, WiFi, an SD card slot, a “G-sensor” for improving viewing angle — and runs on an as yet unspecified version of Android
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Oregon Scientific announces MEEP! Android tablet for Kids, Wile E’s ears prick up
While Nintendo is darn proud of its attempts to differentiate itself from other console manufacturers with its unusual hardware choices , it looks like Sony also had plenty of touchscreen-toting, TV-connected ideas way back in 2010.
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Sony patent sketches reveal Wii U-esque controller system, keeps it vague
Microvision unveiled a slew of new tools for pico projector enthusiasts today, with its new PicoMagic platform. Fueled by the company’s PicoP Gen 2 HD laser display engine, PicoMagic offers a host of new applications to pico presenters, including two on display at this year’s CES — touch interactive and 3D mobile displays. The former, rather obviously, allows users to manipulate images and icons with their sure-handed fingers on any surface, while the latter, known as PicoP 3D, takes this capability to the third dimension
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Microvision’s PicoMagic apps bring touch interactive, 3D mobile displays to your pico projector
If you’re rolling with a smartphone or tablet right now, there’s a pretty high chance you’ve been taking advantage of Atmel’s maXTouch technology without even knowing it.
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Atmel maXTouch S touchscreen controllers promise thinner and lighter devices, reduced display noise
Gigabyte has revealed a new tablet, the S1081, and a convertible notebook, the T1006M, at CES 2012 , each running Intel’s new Cedar Trail Atom CPUs. The Gigabyte S1081 has a 10.1-inch capacitive multitouch display, 500GB hard-drive (or a smaller-capacity, but bump-proof SSD) and USB 3.0, and can be paired with a Multimedia Docking Station that adds a DVD drive and 2.1 speaker system. Other connectivity on the slate includes WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0, HDMI and VGA, and Gigabyte has designed a matching USB keyboard and carry-case
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Gigabyte S1081 tablet and T1006M convertible notebook pack Cedar Trail
Are you and all of your friends flocking to buy that thing shown above at full retail price? Exactly.
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Evigroup drops SmartPaddle Pro price to €699, optional head-tracking feature watches you intently
Heard of Unnecto? Neither have we.
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Unnecto TAPs into dual-SIM market, lets you do double GSM duty with a touch
Look, we recognize that touchscreens have come a long way in the last few years, but there’s always room for improvement. Thankfully, Synaptics agrees and is rolling out an update to its ClearPad capacitive panels
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Synaptics promises better touchscreens with SignalClarity and Design Studio 4
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.
