Tagged ‘Touchscreen’

Not content with going gesture-crazy and turning mouse scrolling upside down in Mac OS X Lion, Apple has been pondering ways of tossing the traditional keyboard in the dustbin. A new Apple patent application has surfaced revealing Cupertino’s take on an entirely flat, touch-sensitive keyboard that come to future MacBooks.

We’ve already seen similar touchscreen keyboards on real world products including the Acer Iconia 6102 and the Toshiba Libretto W100 but Apple’s design takes the concept a little bit further…

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Ok, so every other tech story on the net carries a bogus reference to Spielberg’s ‘Minority Report’. But put aside your cynicism for one second – this is the real deal!

In the video, you’ll see an amazing, transparent touchscreen data interface that recognises your finger-taps using ultrasound.

Created for Ford’s Start More Live event, Dom Baker of Wunderman – one of the brains behind it – took us through the tech…

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Yesterday we also got a closer look at the doubly touch sensitive Sony Vaio L Series. This is a big screen all in one family PC that has not only a multi-touch screen, but a touch sensitive bezel too. Click through for more photos and pricing details.

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The Amazon Kindle 2 will feature an “innovative Web browser” if a new ad by Kindle making Amazon shell-company Lab 126 is to be believed. But will a touchscreen Amazon Kindle 2 with perked up web browsing be enough to fight the iPad or should Amazon angle for partnerships with devices like the Dell Mini 5?

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Mac TabletWe’ve been inundated with Apple Tablet rumours in the past few months and recently heard that Apple has rehired an engineer from its old Newton team).  But it seems we should have started whispering far earlier. As early as 2003, in fact. According to the New York Times, former Apple employees say a touchscreen tablet was in existence in 2003 but the battery life was too poor.

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BlackBerry Storm

With the BlackBerry Storm, RIM has pushed its iconic email phone head long into the touchscreen tea cup. Giving us the amusing – if slightly obvious – reference, the Storm in a teacup. Sorry. We’ll get on with the review now.

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Nokia may be about to launch a high-end phone with a high quality capacitive touchscreen to directly compete with Apple’s iPhone. Separate reports of recent orders for touchscreen components point to a new device being readied for later this year.

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The Asus Eee PC T91, the first touchscreen convertible netbook from the Taiwanese tech giant, will be twisting its way over to the UK within a month, and we now know how much for. Read on for the full scoop.

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