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This may or may not be the first hint that, soon, the time will come when paint and brushes are no longer used for making pieces of art.Petros Vrellis has released a video of what is and, at the same time, is not Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting “Starry Night”.By using a large, Full HD touchscreen,... |
11 February 2012
05:25 GMT |
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Going forward with the distressing news, even the touch panel market turned out to have enjoyed a less than favorable first month of 2012.
Digitimes again plays the role of bearer of bad news, so to speak.
Apparently, makers of touch panels saw their revenues drop on month by almost 20%.
TPK Holding had it part... |
7 February 2012
04:50 GMT |
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It appears that Atmel has just made it possible for multitouch screens to be even more versatile and intuitive, having created the maXTouch S controller line.
Though people may not pay much mind to them directly, all those processors that handle touch commands on today's screens have to come from somewhere.
At... |
9 January 2012
09:38 GMT |
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In addition to providing users with a variety of new features in the upcoming Windows 8 platform, Microsoft is also keen on ensuring that their data remains safe and that there are various ways in which they can protect their personal information.
One of these is picture password, a feature that should offer users... |
20 December 2011
13:51 GMT |
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We've seen many sorts of product concepts, most of which never made it past the stage of ideas and drawings, but Sanden's vending machine might just become an actual product.There are quite a few things that Sanden thinks vending machines could benefit from.The 65-inch touchscreen stands out the most, under... |
19 December 2011
04:57 GMT |
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We saw some pretty off the wall watch ideas over the years, but Tokyoflash may have managed to make some wrist watches that, while not quite as off the wall, are easy to classify as overkill.
Unless you really like LCDs, LEDs and touchscreens, that is.
Basically, the company made the Kisai On Air Black LED Watch an... |
15 December 2011
04:02 GMT |
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Research and Markets has added a new report to their portfolio called "Global Multi-Touch Market (2011 - 2016)". It looks at how the touch-centric technology has affected and will affect the industry in the coming years, with Apple playing a major role.The market intelligence firm acknowledges that the inception of M... |
14 December 2011
14:41 GMT |
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We already talked about the 40-inch EXODesk from ExoPC (see the video above), but there is another one of these things in the works.
Set to be manufactured by ViewSonic, the new EXODesk will measure 32 inches in diagonal and features a native resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels (Full HD).
Also, it runs Microsoft Win... |
9 December 2011
08:20 GMT |
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Ultrabooks may not have touch support as a default feature now, but they definitely aren't going to lack it forever, not with Windows 8 in the pipeline.
Digitimes is playing its part as supplier of small bits of information with potentially big implications.
This once, it is ultrabooks and their likely future... |
7 December 2011
09:03 GMT |
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This is one of those situations where proverbs could come in handy, about one man's trash being another's treasure or some such.
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz figured how they might make use of the soot given off by candles to improve displays.
The substance does... |
5 December 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Touchscreen technologies have come a long way, but there doesn't seem to be a limit to how much farther they can evolve, not with things like Senseg's new invention.
Going straight to the point, Senseg created a new type of touch technology that uses electrostatic fields to produce the sort of tactile sen... |
2 December 2011
20:01 GMT |
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People may or may not remember when we drew attention to the SUR40 touch surface, the one over here. Samsung is now mass producing the 40-inch LCD that it is equipped with and which is quite advanced as far as touchscreens go. The panel boasts the Optical Sensor in Pixel technology, which lets the screen use infra... |
1 December 2011
07:23 GMT |
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As the Universal Serial Bus really starts owning up to its name, technology really gets more and more intercompatible, and MIMO just made its latest contribution to that effect. What MIMO launched, or at least formally unveiled, is the Magic Touch Monitor, or monitors. The product isn't available yet, that wi... |
22 November 2011
12:21 GMT |
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Samsung Galaxy Nexus has arrived on shelves in various markets in Europe, and is getting ready to make an appearance in the US and Canada as well in the near future, with some impressive capabilities packed inside.
One of them involves the large 4.65-inch touchscreen display that the device packs, which features ... |
19 November 2011
03:46 GMT |
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One of the first handsets that Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion will push to the market with the new BBX OS on board could be the BlackBerry London, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest.
The new mobile phone is rumored to pack specifications that will bring it in line with some of the hig... |
15 November 2011
01:51 GMT |
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C-TOUCH, China's International Touchscreen Exhibition, will convene next month, November, 2011, from 24 to 26, in Shenzen, and it is there that N-trig will showcase its latest inventions.
Quite simply, the company will put more than a few things on display, such as convertible tablets, full-fledged slates, etc... |
31 October 2011
10:32 GMT |
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Chimei Innolux (CMI) has just brought to the spotlight a new 4.3-inch smartphone display, one that can provide users with the ability to enjoy 3D content while on the go without the need of special glasses.
Moreover, the company says that their product can deliver the said feature at 720p HD resolution, the same r... |
28 October 2011
16:51 GMT |
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One of the new things that Nokia should bring to devices in the near future is a smudge-free touchscreen for its handsets, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest.
The company has already demoed advancements in the area at the Nokia World conference in London, and says that the technology will be included... |
28 October 2011
12:41 GMT |
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Touchscreens are all well and good, but they don't exactly work well if people don't take their gloves off, so people with cold-sensitive hands will probably like what SMK Corp invented.
Simply put, the company built a new touchscreen which, through pressure detection paired with a noise-filtering sensor,... |
27 October 2011
07:56 GMT |
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A certain PhD student called Chris Harrison, and others, just invented a new technology that can allow for “graphical, interactive, multitouch input on arbitrary, everyday surfaces.” The idea Chris Harrison had is not so much a touch interface as it is a gesture recognition technology, since it isn'... |
18 October 2011
20:01 GMT |
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Notebook vendors seem eager to get touch support onto notebooks as a standard feature, such as it is, but this isn't exactly something as easy as it sounds, especially for the people actually tasked with making the screens in question.
By now, the fact that ultrabooks will, or are hoped, to start a new age f... |
6 October 2011
09:12 GMT |
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Lenovo has recently announced that it will soon introduce its first Sandy Bridge all-in-one computer from the ThinkCentre family, the 20-inch M71z, which is designed for large businesses, schools and governments.The new ThinkCentre AIO desktop system is built around Intel's second generation Core processors (Len... |
9 August 2011
04:44 GMT |
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As more and more electronics adopt touch-based input, sales of such panels can only grow, an assumption that is more than corroborated by market analysts versed in the workings of this particular field.DisplaySearch is a firm that makes it a point to always stay well informed in regards to the situation on the displ... |
13 July 2011
07:27 GMT |
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Some areas of the IT market may be going through a rough time, but that doesn't mean others can't be reveling in their wins, as proven by what has been happening, and will happen on the touchscreen segment.When the IT market stills and no new products appear, or the number of new releases is low, market wa... |
6 July 2011
09:41 GMT |
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South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is reportedly preparing the launch of a brand new smartphone as soon as next year, one that would step out side of the already established manufacturing process by adding a cover glass with an integrated touch screen.
The news comes from Korean site, ETNews, which claims th... |
14 June 2011
17:41 GMT |
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Kobo has recently announced its latest generation of eReader devices, the Kobo Touch Edition, which improves the company's previous design by adding a touch screen in order to enhance navigation and its overall functionality.
The Kobo eReader Touch Edition sports a black and white 6-inch screen that is built ... |
24 May 2011
05:20 GMT |
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It appears that Hanvon has come up with a new technology that might just revolutionize the way touchscreens track fingers and styluses, to the point where it is likely that it won't be long before actual slates and the like adopt it.Nowadays, touch support is showing up practically everywhere, but providing sty... |
20 May 2011
11:04 GMT |
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The SID Display Week may not be the greatest of electronics show, especially with Computex following soon after, but there are definitely some things worthy of note being showcased there, such as a particular Toshiba drawing board. One might be hard-pressed to find something good to call the “R&D project&rdqu... |
18 May 2011
10:15 GMT |
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American Industrial Systems, Inc. (AIS) is one of those IT players that makes various products for other markets than the consumer segment, and it looks like its latest move consisted of stainless steel, among other things.The new product line that AIS has created consists of three types of PCs, differentiated mainl... |
2 May 2011
05:10 GMT |
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Gigabyte is known for its many hardware components and PC products but it looks like it might start to make itself known for other things as well, such as a certain software known as Touch BIOS.Hardware cannot function in absence of software, as the two have ever been two parts of the same whole.Software comes in ma... |
27 April 2011
07:35 GMT |
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When making a tablet or smartphone, or any other mobile electronic device, the display has a fairly large bearing on the ultimate thickness of the item, and Toshiba figured it would create a thinner one.Display technologies are one of the things that the IT industry is working especially hard on lately.In this case,... |
26 April 2011
11:12 GMT |
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A lot of rumors have been appearing lately about the rumored successor for the Nintendo Wii, which a French website 01net has dubbed Project Cafe, and, even though the project is not yet announced, analysts have begun speculating about it as if it was.
Jessie Divnich, who is an analyst for EEDAR, has said that, &l... |
21 April 2011
18:51 GMT |
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The last few weeks have been flooded with rumors linked to the follow-up to the Nintendo Wii home console, about which analysts and players are expecting to hear an announcement before the end of the year, possibly at the E3 trade show.
Now a site in France, called 01net, which is to be trusted because it managed ... |
19 April 2011
04:46 GMT |
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Every product on the IT market is defined by the components it uses, and it looks like ASUS has chosen a touchscreen solution that might not exactly ring many bells in prospective customers' heads.Today's market is already past the point where companies were uncertain as to whether tablets would progress w... |
15 April 2011
05:50 GMT |
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Monitors and all-in-one PCs don't often get touch support, since such a feature is arguably awkward and potentially tiring for the arms when used for extended periods, but productivity can still benefit from it, as can anything that relies on interactivity.While Toshiba is busy filling the mobile PC market with... |
6 April 2011
11:01 GMT |
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After it has reached the US shores, Acer's now famous dual-screen Iconia Touchbook was also introduced in Australia where the laptop is expected to become available sometime later in the second quarter of 2011 for $2,499 AUD.
The Iconia Touchbook was first announced by Acer in November of 2010 and its most di... |
31 March 2011
03:42 GMT |
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Nowadays, it seems that companies are either suing each other or joining forces, and the latter sort of relationship has sprouted, or in this case blossomed and evolved, between 3M and Quanta, both of which want to get serious in the capacitive touch industry.3M and Quanta have been collaborating for a while on mass... |
10 March 2011
10:22 GMT |
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It is a well known fact that researchers have been trying to get touch input into just about any electronic imaginable, and it seems that they are now crossing boundaries and headed to other domains, like that of clothing.For years many research groups have been experimenting with bendable screens and special touch-... |
4 March 2011
10:17 GMT |
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It appears that Mitsubishi is not the only company paying attention to the market for industrial displays, as AIS has also prepared a number of products, HMI operator interface terminals in this case.Mitsubishi only revealed a pair of devices, and they were 'just' display modules that haven't even com... |
28 February 2011
05:14 GMT |
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Needless to say, the Mobile World Congress is packed full of all sorts of smartphones, tablets, handsets and any other type of mobile electronic, but it seems not all news is about such things, as NTT Docomo revealed not a new phone or slate, but a 3D touchable display.Mobile World Congress is an international trade... |
16 February 2011
04:35 GMT |
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Touch technology has definitely been evolving and it seems that combining it with other display assets has become easy enough that a screen large enough to need 3 computers to run was made with technologies generally available to display makers. Touch technology has started to show up on any and all sorts of device... |
14 February 2011
06:30 GMT |
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Since the electronics show known as ISE (Integrated Systems Europe) has started, companies set to attend the show are already announcing what they have on show, and NextWindows seems particularly eager to show off the 2550 ProfileTouch.The Integrated Systems Europe Expo is taking place in Amsterdam, the Netherlands,... |
1 February 2011
10:29 GMT |
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A new BlackBerry Storm model is expected to arrive on the market during the ongoing year, namely the Storm 3, and the full list of specifications for this device has just emerged into the wild, along with info on a possible September release date.This is not the first time we learn about the upcoming arrival of this... |
15 January 2011
04:26 GMT |
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Custom computer builder Maingear has just unveiled a new HTPC computer prototype, at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, that pairs a fast Intel Sandy Bridge processor together with a motorized touchscreen display to deliver the ultimate in home media entertainment.
The system was presented by Maingear's CTO,... |
7 January 2011
08:36 GMT |
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Since the holiday season is upon us, Swype decided it would be a great idea to offer its users some reasons to rejoice, and announced that Swype beta for Android was opened once again, though it's uncertain for how long.Swype BETA for Android comes with a nice range of enhancements, making the software solution... |
21 December 2010
08:53 GMT |
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It seems that revenue records are not synonymous with profitability in the case of touch panels, mostly because material costs have been rising beyond what manufacturers are comfortable with.The IT market can sometimes yield unusual paradoxes, or things that look like paradoxes, particularly when it comes to finance... |
3 December 2010
09:04 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment of America has been revealed to have filed a new patent linked to a new touch screen technology that will probably be included in the PlayStation Portable 2 device which is widely rumored to be in development at the company and might be announced in the initial months of 2011.The newest pa... |
30 November 2010
04:39 GMT |
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One of the biggest problems posed by virtual keyboards available via touchscreen displays is that they don't really offer the same level of physical feedback as their USB or PS/2 counterparts, but it seems that Microsoft might be working on a technology that will actually solve this issue and grant touchscreens ... |
29 November 2010
01:44 GMT |
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Building certain computing products fitted to the specific needs of a local market is not exactly a good idea unless said market is, in fact, quite a huge one, and for this reason, HP's decision to build a tabletop computing system designed specifically for the Indian seems like a very good business opportunity ... |
19 November 2010
15:41 GMT |
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Lately, Hitachi seems to make great strides when it comes down to touch screens and FPD International 2010 seems to be just the right place to display all of its latest prototypes, right after we had the chance of reporting on its stylus and glove compatible capacitive touchscreen panel, the Japanese company is set t... |
16 November 2010
08:45 GMT |
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