SANTA BARBARA, CALIF. — Asustek, also known as ASUS — the people who make the Eee PC — plans to ship new notebooks that have touch screens on both the top (where the screen normally goes) and the bottom (where the keyboard normally goes) as early as the first quarter of next year, according […]
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Now this is interesting when it comes to two smartphones with touchscreens, so we thought what the hell lets have a war and the war is “Nokia 5800 Xpress Music Vs Blackberry Storm 9500”.
Now we are not going into the full specs here because all we want to know is, who will win the […]
Multitouch technology really does seem to be the next big thing as far as computer interfaces go. The iPhone has it implemented, Microsoft is embedding the tech into Windows 7, and Finnish company MultiTouch recently announced multitouch LCDs.
On Friday, the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, or HIIT (not be confused with high-intensity interval […]
Apple’s iPhone is making multitouch all the rage on mobile phones but laptop makers are not rushing to add the technology to traditional notebooks.
Multitouch, which lets users control applications through gestures on a screen, may not be the best interface for laptops because of the size and placement of the screen. In addition, there’s […]
Fujitsu senior product director Paul Moore in an interview published today revealed plans by his company to introduce multi-touch computers while simultaneously downplaying the significance of the technology. Following in the footsteps of an early development in Dell’s Latitude XT, Fujitsu tells Wired it plans […]
There’s a quick little piece on multitouch technology on Wired right now, and it questions the conventional wisdom that says multitouch technology will do to laptops what it’s done to cellphones. (That is, multitouch, as seen on the iPhone, is the hot, new input mechanism that everyone wants to date.) “Questions”? Yes, not everyone […]
/* Following hot on the heels of the launch of the S60 5th Edition today, Nokia has confirmed that it is working on future devices that could feature multi-touch capabilities like the Apple iPhone 3G.
Although S60 5th Edition supports only resistive touchscreens, Nokia marketeer Matti Vanska admitted, “We’re investigating other touch device technologies for […]
Multitouch isn’t a total stranger to notebooks - Dell’s Latitude XT shipped with a capacitive touchscreen that, in July, got a firmware update to enable pinch-zooming and other gestures, while Synaptics’ latest touchpads have multitouch-style gestures - but it’s been a harder sell than in, say, Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch. Windows 7 will ship […]
Designed by Panasonic’s R&D center, the concept remote resembles a gaming controller, with a couple of buttons in the center, flanked by a clickable touchpad on two sides.
When a user touches one of the pads, virtual buttons are displayed on the television, along with a cursor designed to look like a […]
