NanoTouch moves capacitive touchscreens to the back of your PMP
One of the big problems facing touchscreen devices as gaming platforms is the fact that playing a game on one, by necessity, requires obscuring the screen with the user’s own clubbed, meaty, greasy…
View ArticleTroll Touch brings touchscreens to your 21.5 or 27 inch iMacs
Now that Windows 7 has been released, multitouch is now substantially supported in one of the big two operating systems around, and countless new all-in-one desktops are being released with built-in...
View ArticleDIY: make any pair of gloves touchscreen capable with just a couple stitches...
In the warm months of spring and summer, touchscreen phones are wonderful. They bounce around happily in breezy short pockets, and withdrawn for a call, quickly register digit presses against their...
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Building an iPad-killer? The Swedes have a design for that!
You don’t need to start from scratch to develop an iPad-like device. A Swedish company has fully-functional yet low-cost touchscreen designs that pack in everything you could ask from a touchscreen,...
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Swype courting Apple for inclusion in iOS?
Here at Geek, we’ve long been interested in Swype, a fascinating virtual input alternative to hunt-and-pecking on touchscreen smartphones invented by Cliff Kushler, the inventor of the T9 predictive...
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Microsoft patents morphable touchscreens that grow their own QWERTYs
Touchscreens are gradually replacing QWERTY keypads in the mobile space, but not without some sadness and some controversy. Touchscreens, after all, have no tactility to them, no resistance. There’s no...
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Yahoo! installs 20 gaming touchscreens in San Francisco bus shelters
If you have to take the bus to work every day, then the wait to get on one can be pretty tedious, especially if the weather isn’t great. Your phone or a personal…
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Geek deals: $148 off a 24-inch Planar multitouch display
Planar has a reputation for making good quality monitors that offer a lot of features and quality for your buck. A new model just showed up on our deal radar that continues to…
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Sony demos how Xperia Sola touchless display doesn’t work
If you didn’t quite understand the point of Floating Touch when you read about the Sony Xperia Sola the other day, maybe this new video from Sony will help. Then again, maybe it…
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Every gesture required to beat Angry Birds transformed into modern art
Whereas most people mindlessly play Angry Birds on our morning commute, swiping away at the slingshot while we occasionally look up to check the stop, artist Evan Roth had another idea in mind for…
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Fujitsu bridges the gap between dead trees and touchscreens
Fujitsu has developed a device that’s capable of turning just about any mostly two-dimensional object into a touchscreen. It’s not alchemy. It’s a simple combination of a low-resolution camera (just...
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A 46-inch multitouch coffee table computer ties your living room together
Once upon a time, Microsoft’s Surface wasn’t a consumer-grade portable tablet aimed at the iPad and Nexus market. Long before we all swiped through Windows 8 on the landscape-oriented tablet, it was a…
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Gorilla Glass NBT coming to touchscreen laptops
Today, Corning introduced a new breed of Gorilla Glass. Dubbed Gorilla Glass NBT, the new toughened glass is aimed at touchscreen laptops, rather than the usual smartphone screen the glass is so cozy…
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Disney Research creates tactile touchscreen by shocking your fingers
Touchscreens have done wonders making content and user interfaces more interactive, but there’s something missing. A touchscreen still just feels like a slab of glass, but your fingertips are jampacked...
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Fox News replaces news desks with absurdly large touchscreens
Always out of touch, Fox News has decided to join the 21st century and upgrade its newsroom. Shepard Smith gives us a tour of what is called the Fox News Deck. What at first seems like a benign...
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Samsung explains how you might use its three-sided smartphone
Samsung already proved the company knows how to make a phone with a display that wraps around its sides. Now they’ve got a patent that shows they’ve figured out how people could actually […]
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Google removes 300ms touch input lag in Chrome 32 for Android
Google is introducing yet another tweak in Chrome for Android designed to speed up browsing. The development team has managed to remove the annoying lag that you may have experienced when tapping...
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Thin film can be painted onto objects and sees pressure as color
A new thin film based on gold nano particles could help researchers make cars safer and much more, all by reading pressure as color.
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Thermal Touch can turn any surface into a tablet
An exciting new technology from German company Metaio brings augmented reality one step closer to being consumer-ready.
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Cheap, transparent electrode film will make smartphone displays shatterproof
Akron, Ohio, is home to more than just LeBron James’ favorite burger joint. It’s also home to the University of Akron College of Polymer Science, where they’ve figured out out how make cheaper, […]
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