Touch Screen

AU Optronics unveils 0.69mm ultra-thin mobile device panel and multi-touch coolness [AU Optronics]

Nokia’s Dual Screen Handheld Concept Comes with Removable Keyboard

Nokia’s known for breaking out of the box from time to time, and their latest patent proves that. It describes a UMPC-like handheld with two touchscreens and a detachable keyboard. The keyboard can be slid on top of one of the screens should you need to text or browse the Web. Removing the keyboard would…

XM’s Touchscreen Patent Puts the Buttons on Your Fingers

XM Satellite Radio is taking a different approach to the touch-screen/gadget craze. They have a patent on a gadget whose functions are mapped out to your fingers instead of its screen. Wanna switch stations, use your middle finger. Wanna access the menu, use your index finger. The technology would rely on your fingerprints to work…

Touch Screen Doesn’t Need to Be Touched [verdict: WTF?]

Forget about that Apple “multi-touch” Finger-print-magnet™ mega-platform crap and welcome the touch screen that actually doesn’t even need to be touched. https://gizmodo.com/analyst-apples-multitouch-launching-a-mega-platform-244219 With this display, complete with Front Row style interface, you can manipulate things from a distance of six inches, which opens the door to all kinds of exciting possibilities. You know, manipulate things…

All iPods to Be Flash By The End of ’07

It seems like only yesterday that Steve was making fun of all the puny flash-based mp3 players out there, in favor of his superior hard disk iPod. Well it looks like the days of iPods with HDD are numbered if this rumor pans out. Analyst Jesse Tortora, claims that Apple will move the grand daddy…

Minority Report Touch Interface for Real

The iPhone’s new touch interface might be nice, but it’s nowhere near as involved as the future UI envisioned in Minority Report, where Tom Cruise could drag objects across the screen and manipulate them in all kinds of ways, or “push” them aside to bring up something new. Jeff Han, a research scientist at NYU’s…

Apple Touch-Screen iPod Doc Was a Typo

Your parents are getting divorced. Santa killed himself back in 1974. The Easter Bunny is a hermaphrodite. The iPod TouchScreen isn’t confirmed. Sorry to be the bringer of bad news, but the iPod “touch-screen” was supposed to be “touch-wheel”. Go back and see the original document and compare. https://gizmodo.com/official-apple-document-refers-to-touch-screen-ipod-212037 [Ed: Oh sure, all the letters…

Official Apple Document Refers To “Touch-Screen” iPod

German spies combing through Apple’s developer support documents have made an interesting little discovery: an official mention of a touch-screen iPod! OMG! Yup, the developer docs mention “touch-screen” models. I’ve gotta tell you, there’s nothing better than reading technical manuals looking for rumors to spread. Granted, a super secret Apple higher-up already told us that…

Apple Patents Another Touch Sensitive iPod Concept

Apple dropped another bomb today by unveiling a new patent application appropriately titled “Electronic Device Having Display and Surrounding Touch Sensitive Bezel for User Interface and Control.” At least they are specific with the title. The focus of the patent is the incorporation of a touch-sensitive bezel (edge of screen) that can adapt to the…

Mediastation Multimedia System Lets You Work in the Bath

Made for people who own their homes rather than rent, the Mediastation Multimedia System is a full bathroom solution that ensures you are never more than three feet away from a computer at all times. The touch-screen system is waterproof, thankfully, so you can access the internet, listen to the radio, watch a DVD, listen…

Sony DSC-N2 Cyber-shot With 3-Inch Touch Screen

In our haste to bring news of the Sony DSC-T50 Cyber-shot, we failed to mention the Cyber-shot DSC-N2, a 10-megapixel digital camera with a 3-inch touch screen display. The camera makes use of Sony’s Clear Photo Plus LCD technology that supposedly enables higher resolutions, higher contrast and improved viewing angles. It also has 25MB of…

Buslink MP3/CD/Radio System Welcomes You to Yesterday’s Technology

Buslink’s combination MP3/CD player+radio incorporates all of the technology that set the late 1990’s on fire, in a form factor that looks more like it was designed by the engineers rather than the professional design guys. The touch screen is where you get your control on and its USB port lets you play your tunes…

UBiQUiO 501 Cookie Cutter Pocket PC Smartphone

Happy day, another smartphone is being released, this time from Tech Faith Wireless. Given the 1337 name of the UBiQUiO 501, it’s a Pocket PC-based smartphone with the familiar 2.5-inch QVGA touch screen input and built-in 802.11b/g Wi-Fi. Onboard you’ll only find 64MB of memory, which makes the miniSD card slot something more of a…

Microsoft TouchLight: Touch Screen Technology with a Twist

Researchers over at Microsoft have developed TouchLight, a touch screen technology that combines off-the-shelf components to create a unique and interactive affair. Several different types of cameras are positioned behind a holographic projection material screen recording your movement. Approaching the screen, you then see a projection of yourself or whatever you have touching the screen.…

Casio ClassPad 300 Touch-Screen Graphic Calculator

Hot diggity damn, kids these days get the coolest learning gadgets. The ClassPad 300 is a graphing calculator that has a superb 160×120 pixel touch screen. It lets you enter equations via handwriting and better yet, draw boobies on the touch screen for all kinds of giggling fun. The drag-and-drop feature also makes the interface…

NAVIsis Turns Regular Monitors Into Touch Screen Monitors

The Korean company NAVIsis has developed a technology that can transform any old regular monitor into a touch screen monitor of sorts. Their EZ-Canvas is a pair of sensors that you attach to the upper corners of your monitor, and when combined with a special stylus and their own proprietary software, you can treat your…

Crystal Embedded Touch Fridge

This stunning Gorenje Swarovski designed black fridge takes its inspirations from desktop PCs, but one-ups them by embedding 7,000 crystals on the front. In addition to keeping your food fresh, it’s got a touch screen, radio, recipe book and voice recorder. Less than 10 will be produced, so you’re probably not going to get one.…