Touch Screen Gadget

Asus Eee PC can handle many OS’s

Posted by admin | Category: Tablet PC & UMPC

When news of the new generation of Asus Eee PC broke out, we thought it would have touch screen. For those wishing for one, it looks like it won’t be happening. Don’t despair though, because it appears that instead of a touch screen, the Asus Eee PC 900 is getting a multi-touch trackpad. Yep, the one that’s on MacBook Air. You can then fancy yourself using the wafer-thin spawn of Cupertino while actually on an Eee PC. The price of the Asus Eee PC 900 varies depending upon the location, with a May or June release date.

The system, which is projected to cost 399 Euros (499 USD), is projected to be available in April 2008 in the US and later in the year in some other countries. It is projected to have an 8.9-inch 1024×600 pixel screen, 1GB RAM as standard, an 8GB to 12GB SSD, a larger trackpad with multi-touch features that allow two-finger scrolling and zooming via a "pinch" gesture, and is "Windows ready". Units on show at CeBIT 2008 were running both Windows XP and Linux, and Microsoft is reportedly in talks with Asus regarding a version of Windows 7 optimized for platforms such as the Eee

The Eee 900 series dimensions are a little larger than the 70x models. Asus CEO Jerry Shen also stated that future models of the 900 will be powered by Intel’s Atom processor, initially they will use the same processor as the 701. He also said future versions will have hard drive options, in addition to solid-state drives.

New feeling’s touch sensor for iPhone

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The technology that makes cell phones vibrate when people make a mistake while typing may help cut typing errors in touch-screen phones like the iPhone that lack the tactile feedback provided by a keyboard.
Researchers at the University of Glasgow in the UK claim that they can expel complications in touch-screen phones by using actuators like the ones used in cell phones to give a feeling of a keyboard.
Software called VibeTonz made by Immersion of San Jose, California, can get an actuator to move in different ways such as smoothly or jerkily.
Corporations like — Samsung and LG, which make touch-screen phones, use this to provide rudimentary ‘haptic’ feedback when a button is pressed, but according to Stephen Brewster, the study’s lead author, phones can do much more.
"The actuators are there, but people aren’t using them in the most effective way," New Scientist quoted Brewster as saying.
In order to create more sophisticated sensations, the research team strung together combinations of different VibeTonz.
A single pulse 30 milliseconds long gives the feeling of a button being clicked, while sliding a finger from one button to another prompts a half-second long buzz, providing a ‘rough’ feeling that tells the user they have strayed to another key.
Sliding the finger across a button causes the buzz to be ramped up and then down, giving the feel of a round button.
The team found that users typing speed and accuracy were significantly closer to results they achieved using a real keyboard, compared with when the haptics were disabled.

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IQ775 All-In-One TouchSmart Desktop PC

Posted by admin | Category: Desktop

One of the lesser known features of the Vista operating system is the touch screen interface. This is designed into the OS for items such as tablet style notebooks. HP instead has added a touch screen display to the TouchSmart all-in-one desktop as an extra means of navigation and it works extremely well. Users can either touch the screen with their finger or an included stylus to navigate around on the OS and launch applications quickly. This makes it great for a system sitting in a small room such as a kitchen or den.

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Blu-ray remote DVR-BZ200 standard

Posted by admin | Category: Home Appliance, Trend Watch & News

Mitsubishi Electric Corp has announced two models from its new "REAL Blu-ray" Blu-ray Disc recorder series. The two models are the "DVR-BZ200" with a 500-Gbyte HDD and the "DVR-BZ100" with a 250-Gbyte HDD. These are Mitsubishi’s first Blu-ray recorders.

  For easy playback, recording and other operations, Mitsubishi incorporated its new "REALINK" capability compatible with its "REAL" LCD TVs in the recorders. In addition to a standard remote controller, the Blu-ray recorders come up with another remote controller equipped with a touch screen LCD panel. To realize even easier operations, this controller displays necessary buttons on the LCD panel in accordance with the option chosen by the user.

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Thanks iPhone for market growth

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Global shipment revenue for leading touchscreen technologies will increase from $2.4 billion in 2006 to $4.4 billion in 2012, reports iSuppli. The market research firm credits Apple’s iPhone as a main catalyst in the dramatic sales growth of touchscreens that use projected-capacitive technology, citing the iPhone as proof that multi-touch technology can be portable and affordable.

After the iPhone was launched in 2007, many providers of alternative touchscreen technologies have announced multi-touch capabilities, such as the optical imaging camera-based touch screens offered by NextWindow Ltd and IR Touch Systems Technology Co’s infrared touch screen, iSuppli adds.

Jennifer Colegrove, senior analyst for emerging displays at iSuppli, says that more touchscreen vendors are developing and commercializing this type of screen, effectively reducing the average price gap between the capacitive and resistive display types. “Projected-capacitive touchscreen technology is more durable and has better transmittance than the more commonly used resistive technology,” she adds.

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iPod Touch audio issues is beautiful flaw

Posted by admin | Category: MP3 Player, Multi Touch

The iPod Touch?s beautiful design, useful applications, touch screen, and built-in Wi-Fi outweigh minor audio-quality issues.

The Touch is certainly an amazing piece of technology. Mobile Safari is the best portable Web browser around, Cover Flow works great on a device with limited storage capacity, and the iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store is extremely slick for a first-generation product.

Almost every feature of the iPhone has now made it over to the iPod Touch. The Touch is available in 8GB ($299), 16GB ($399), and 32GB ($499) capacities. At 0.31 inch deep, it’s substantially thinner than the iPhone, but it has the same 802.11b/g wireless support. In addition, it features the same 3.5-inch Multitouch screen with 480-by-320-pixel resolution. The single button on its face brings up the main menu; a small button on top of the device turns the unit on and off.

The only missing bits of hardware from the iPhone are the phone (including the mic and speakers that go with it), the camera, and the volume buttons and locking switch on the side. The nonstandard headset jack, which prevents you from plugging most headphones directly into the iPhone, is gone as well: The connector for a normal set of headphones will fit into the Touch just fine.

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Korea Touch-Web LG LH2300

Posted by admin | Category: Mobile Internet Device, Mobile Phone

T he LG LH2300 has a 3-inch wide LCD display with 800×480 pixels that provides a crystal clear display. The phone has a 3 Megapixel camera with auto-focus and face recognition. If you are a heavy internet user, then this sleek phone is made just for you. The phone is also known as a ‘Touch-Web’ phone for its excellence in using the internet.

LG Telecom has also introduced a new 3G service named ‘OZ’ which is “Open Zone” and provides great internet services to their mobiles.

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Bye keypad? Touch screen to stay centerstage

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Mere touch is enough for them to respond and in some cases even a tilt will do!

Out to grab the growing market, especially the youth segment, mobile handset manufacturers are flooding market space with snazzy devices.

With manufacturers of handsets planning to introduce devices that are ‘touch’, ‘motion’, ’shake’ and even ‘rotation’ sensitive, keypads and buttons might soon be a thing of the past, say industry experts.

If the recently concluded ‘Mobileasia’ 2008, where manufacturers displayed their latest and yet to be launched products was any indication, the next couple of years will see touchscreen devices taking centrestage, they say.

The idea behind introducing touch screens on a larger scale is to provide consumers an interactive and intuitive interface that attracts youth who form the major chunk of mobile users, say the industry people.

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Microsoft way ahead with dual-screen

Posted by admin | Category: Trend Watch & News, Windows Mobile

The first is Windows Slideshow, a feature of Windows Vista. It can display information from a notebook even when the system is turned off or sleeping. The information is held in a small RAM cache and displayed on a secondary display — or it would if a notebook maker would make such a machine.

It would be high irony if Apple shipped a notebook with something like Slideshow, albeit done very differently, before Microsoft’s cost-conscious technology partners — every other PC maker besides Apple — got around to implementing Slideshow.

The two-sided touch concept reminded me of a Microsoft technology demonstration last summer. Created with the Mitsubishi Electronics Research Laboratory, the technology is called LucidTouch. A video is available on the MERL site.

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LG titanium really cools

Posted by admin | Category: Home Appliance

The coolest fridge I’ve seen for a while, this titanium silver clad beauty features a 15in LCD screen with full connectivity and remote control on its front door. On the other door there’s a touch screen LED display. It’s also got the ice dispenser, water filter and a full length wine rack shelf.LG Side-by-Side, £1,900, www.uk.lge.com 3No more pre-heat . . . The world’s first counter-top lightweight oven, it uses a “mega-heater system”, which utilises light waves created by a combination of different type of heaters – halogen, sheath and ceramic – to ensure food is cooked evenly. Food is also cooked four times faster than a conventional oven and reaches 320C in only five minutes.LG Light Oven, £349, www.uk.lge.comThe coolest fridge I’ve seen for a while, this titanium silver clad beauty features a 15in LCD screen with full connectivity and remote control on its front door. On the other door there’s a touch screen LED display. It’s also got the ice dispenser, water filter and a full length wine rack shelf.

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