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Sony Has Patent for Touch Screen Controller Similar to That of the Nintendo Wii U

It seems that before the Nintendo-made Wii U home console and its tablet-like touchscreen controller became a reality at the 2011 edition of the E3 trade event, rival Sony was thinking of creating a similar device and even filled a patent for it back during 2010. The Sony incarnation of the idea was called “Po...

6 February 2012
16:31 GMT

Nintendo Promises Worldwide Launch for Wii U Before End of 2012

Video game hardware maker and publisher Nintendo has stated that it will be launching the new Wii U home console on markets like United States, Europe, Australia and Japan before the end of 2012, although it has not said that the new device will be out at the same time on all these territories. Satoru Iwata, who is ...

27 January 2012
02:58 GMT

Razer’s Project Fiona Might Redefine PC Gaming

Despite rumors Razer has not used the CES 2012 event to show off a new version of its older Switchblade concept and has unveiled an all new gaming concept called Project Fiona, which the company sees as a natural evolution for gaming on the PC platform. Project Fiona looks like a tablet that has two analog sticks pa...

12 January 2012
02:20 GMT

Scientists Turn Ordinary Paper Into Touch Screen

Japanese researchers are one step closer to an extraordinary discovery that could make common books end up in museums while playing with the popularity of tablets and other high-tech gadgets. Their finding has also more than a few environmental benefits. Kohei Tsuji and Akira Wakita from Keio University in Japan th...

21 December 2011
03:06 GMT

Endangered Primates Learn to Use iPads and iPhones

A group of scientists from University of Portsmouth will try to teach the endangered Sulawesi crested macaques how to play with touch screens. The main goal is to convince the primates to use high-tech devices in order to express their choices, as a part of a study aiming to find new things about animal behavior. Th...

7 December 2011
09:18 GMT

Customers for Wii U Will Be Different, Says Nintendo

The Nintendo Wii U might be about one year from launch but the Japanese manufacturer says that it plans to continue support for its older devices and plans to target a new breed of consumers with its new platform.Reggie Fils-Aime, who is the leader of the United States division of Nintendo, has stated, “The con...

2 December 2011
15:01 GMT

Peter Moore Says Wii U Is Exciting, Makes Him Happy

The Nintendo Wii U home console is widely expected to be launched during the summer of next year and, while excited by the possibilities of the device, one Electronic Arts leaders says that his company will not yet make official announcements about the games it will bring to the platform.Peter Moore, who is now the C...

18 November 2011
10:01 GMT

Rumor Mill: Wii U Might Get Support for Two Tablet Controllers

When the new Wii U home console from Nintendo was first announced at this year's E3 trade event, the company stated that only one of the new tablet controllers can be connected to the device at the same time but it seems that this approach might now be changing.Develop says that a trusted development executive s...

9 November 2011
05:46 GMT

Calibrate 2 Touch Screens in Windows 7 SP1 - Fix Available

Microsoft confirmed customer reports of issues associated with the calibration of multiple touch screens connected to the same Windows 7 computer. Essentially, the Redmond company is noting that some users might have problems properly leveraging Tablet PC Settings Control Panel with their secondary touch-capable mo...

7 November 2011
12:31 GMT

Legend of Zelda Developer Sees a Lot of Potential for Nintendo Wii U

The Nintendo Wii U home gaming console does not yet have a launch date or an official price, but video game developers within Nintendo, who have access to prototypes and know its power, are already talking about how the new platform might transform the world of gaming when it is released. Eiji Aonuma, who is the ser...

29 August 2011
13:41 GMT

Peter Moore Says Wii U Controller Is a Better Mouse Trap

The E3 2011 Nintendo announcement of the new Wii U home console was leaning heavily on the new controller that the device would deliver, with its integrated touch screen and the added analog controls, and at least one leading video game industry executive believes that this will be the key to its success.Speaking to ...

10 August 2011
13:41 GMT

Irrational Games Has No Plans for the Wii U

When the new Nintendo home console, the Wii U, has been announced at the E3 2011 press conference, a highlights reel named well-known developer Irrational Games as being one of the companies who are creating games for the new platform. Despite this, the creative director of Irrational Games, Ken Levine, has announ...

13 July 2011
04:48 GMT

EA CEO Believes Wii U Second Screen Is Transcendental

The Wii U home console from Nintendo has been one of the big launches seen at this year's E3 and it seems that only now do video game publishers have the time needed to play around with prototypes of the platform and seen what kind of gaming experiences they can craft on it. John Riccitiello, who is the chief...

11 July 2011
13:31 GMT

Wii U Will Attract Core Gamers with Traditional Controller

The E3 2011 Nintendo press conference focused so much on the new controller, especially its new touch screen, that a lot of gamers thought that the company had a kind of new tablet in the Wii U.The company has since then talked about its new console in its entirety and has offered details on the expected performance ...

30 June 2011
15:01 GMT

PlayStation Portable Will Not be Repeated with Vita

Sony has given the official Vita name to the successor to its PlayStation Portable handheld and it seems that the change will extend to more than names when the new device launches, with the company promising that it will be much more active about designing gaming experiences specifically for the platform.Speaking to...

23 June 2011
03:39 GMT

Australian Retailer Says Wii U Will Cost About 633 US Dollars

An Australian retail chain, EB Games, has posted a price of 598 Australian dollars for the recently announced Wii U home console from Nintendo, suggesting the price that interested gamers all over the world might have to pay when the new platform is released to the public.The price translates to about 633 United Stat...

22 June 2011
18:51 GMT

Shigeru Miyamoto Says Wii U Price Will be Competitive

The Wii U was announced with much hype at the E3 2011 trade event but there were two important details missing from the Nintendo presentation: the expected price of the new home console and the launch window for the hardware.Now Shigeru Miyamoto, who is the most important video game designer at Nintendo, has said tha...

21 June 2011
18:41 GMT

Nintendo Confirms Wii U Will Arrive No Sooner than April 2012

Reggie Fils-Aime, who is the president of Nintendo of America, has confirmed during a television appearance that the new Wii U home console from the company will not be launched before the month of April 2012.The executive has made an appearance on the Late Night with Jimmy Fallon show, which airs on NBC, and talked ...

21 June 2011
16:31 GMT

Analyst: Wii U Arrives Two Years Too Late

The biggest announcement from this year's E3 trade event has been that Nintendo is working on its next home console, called the Wii U, and plans to launch it, complete with touchscreen-powered controller, during 2012.But at least one prominent analyst of the video game industry believes that the new platform is ...

14 June 2011
16:31 GMT

Design Change Possible Before Nintendo Wii U Launch

Video game hardware developer and video game publisher Nintendo has announced that the design of the new Wii U home console that was shown at E3 2011 is not final and that a number of changes might be made to the hardware and to how it looks before it is released.Reggie Fils-Aime, who is the president and the chief e...

14 June 2011
13:41 GMT

Nintendo President Says Stock Price Drop on Wii U Reveal Is Strange

Video game hardware developer and video game publisher Nintendo revealed its next home console, called the Wii U, at its E3 2011 press conference and almost immediately after the price of its shares dropped in trading, reaching the lowest point in five years before the end of the week.The stock price reaction is almo...

13 June 2011
10:21 GMT

New Nintendo Console Is Called Wii U, Touch Screen Confirmed

 At its E3 2011 press conference Nintendo, the Japanese hardware maker and video game publisher, has announced that its next home console will be called Wii U and will allow gamers to experience their favorite titles in a whole new way thanks to its innovative controller.The justification for the name is that N...

7 June 2011
13:01 GMT

Sony Says Augmented Reality, Social Elements, Touch Will Drive NPG Success

Video game hardware developer Sony has announced its new handheld, officially known at the moment as the NPG and possibly called Vita for launch, back in January of this year but the company says that the E3 reveal for the device will show how it can dominate the handheld market in the long term.Speaking to EDGE abou...

3 June 2011
15:01 GMT

Recent Project Cafe Videos Confirmed as Fake

A widely seen YouTube video which was rumored to show the first images of Project Cafe, the next home gaming console from Nintendo, has been proven as being a fake with the company saying that it will only reveal actual images of the new hardware at the E3 trade show. The video was posted by a site called Strategy...

23 May 2011
10:37 GMT

Microsoft Patents Tactile Touch Screen Technology

Microsoft, which makes the Xbox 360 home gaming console and publishes video games for it, has filled a patent which is linked to a new technology that can add a texture layer to traditional touch screens that are already on the market.The patent, which was apparently filed this week, talks about a “light-induce...

1 December 2010
03:12 GMT

Verizon Wireless Introduces Entry-Level LG Cosmos Touch

Verizon and Korean handset manufacturer LG have just announced the launch of the LG Cosmos Touch feature-phone. The device will be available in Verizon Wireless Communications Stores starting November 18th.This is the second device in the Cosmos series after the LG Cosmos handset, which is still available at Verizon ...

15 November 2010
13:31 GMT

Rumor Mill: Nintendo DS2 Will Have the Power of the GameCube

It seems that with gamers and news editors already in the know about the big releases Sony and Microsoft are preparing for the fall, with Project Natal and the PlayStation Move detailed and put on display at recent trade shows, speculation about what Nintendo plans to do next is even more rampant.Regie Fils...

16 March 2010
06:49 GMT

The Nintendo DSi Gets Free Opera Browser

Opera is announcing that just as the Nintendo DSi is being launched in North America, on April 5, and in Europe, on April 3, the well-known browser will be offered for all those interested in accessing the Internet from their new handheld.The developer is saying that it has built the application from the ground up, m...

3 April 2009
13:01 GMT

GTA: Chinatown Wars Could Sell 2 Million Copies

Can the Grand Theft Auto franchise do anything wrong? It seems not. Grand Theft Auto IV was one of the best sold videogames of 2008, also taking home quite a few awards at the ceremonies held at the end of the year.Grand Theft Auto: The Lost and Damned, the first downloadable content pack for the game, which was laun...

18 March 2009
17:01 GMT

VIA Unveils VIA VIPRO Touch Screen Panel PC

VIA Technologies, Inc, a worldwide leading maker of power efficient x86 processor platforms, announced yesterday a full featured, entirely fanless panel PC designed for display applications in demanding environments, the VIA VIPRO VP7710 touch screen panel PC. The new VIA VIPRO is rugged, stable and flexible, and com...

19 November 2008
05:51 GMT

HP to Launch Touch Screen Laptop

After the recent reports on HP planning to prevent competitor ASUS from becoming the fourth largest notebook vendor worldwide, the computer system vendor is yet again in the headlines. This time, however, the news concerns some of the company's upcoming products, which should see the light of day even before the...

16 October 2008
08:34 GMT

All-in-One ASUS Eee Top Listed

Earlier this year, reports were heard of an upcoming Eee Monitor that the Taiwanese manufacturer ASUS was planning to release as a low-priced, low-power alternative to all those all-in-one computer systems on the market. Furthermore, the upcoming Eee product was expected to pack some touch-screen capabilities, makin...

13 October 2008
05:06 GMT

CEDIA 2008: nLighten Technologies Intros 72-Inch 1080p DLP Display You Can Control with Your Fingers

Everyone's talking about touch and multi-touch control systems nowadays, so it's no wonder that we're beginning to see more and more such systems take central stage at various technology shows around the world. And that's also the case with this year's CEDIA, where a company called nLighten T...

5 September 2008
10:16 GMT

MultiTouch Announces First Modular Multi-Touch LCD

When you say multi-touch, most of us instantly think of the technology used in some of Apple's successful products, such as the iPhone or the MacBook Pro. This technology allows users to interact with a certain device using their fingers, with several touch combinations. However, MultiTouch is also the name of a...

1 September 2008
06:53 GMT

Gigabyte's Mini Tablet PC Gets Priced

In a market that is clearly oriented towards netbooks and the latest Intel Centrino 2 portable computer systems, Gigabyte is offering a tablet PC that is designed to be part of the low-power notebooks. The M192 was announced last month during the Computex show, held in Taipei, but has not seen yet its fair share of p...

21 July 2008
17:57 GMT

How Touch Screens Work

There are three ways through which a touch screen display can detect whether or not you are actually touching the display surface and the relative position of the object touching it: the resistive, capacitive or surface acoustic wave system.The resistive system operates by using a design involving a glass layer on to...

12 May 2008
08:45 GMT

Nine-Inched Eee PC With Touchscreen Features, In the Works

Asus has bombed us with details about its upcoming models of Eee PC since its first appearance on the market. Some other details emerging on the Web are simply news, others are as real as possible. A 10-inch version of the Eee PC might sound too good to be true, yet, Asustek confirmed that it is working on it during ...

18 January 2008
11:29 GMT

Apple's Ultra Portable Device - Update

Many of you have probably already heard about Apple working on some kind of ultra mobile device, and even more have tagged this rumor with a "never going to happen" sticky note. But let's just not get too feisty about it and analyze the evidence we've got so far.A number of blogs and websites have come with...

28 December 2007
07:27 GMT

Thomson's Mysterious PMP Strips Off Touchscreen!

I can't believe my eyes! Just when I though touch screen mania was more contagious than ever, somebody does this brave gesture and designs a glossy portable media player with...analog controls? Well, I said somebody, not anybody, as Thomson itself is the maker behind this chic PMP concept. However, for whom it m...

10 December 2007
12:26 GMT

Inngenio 5500 Finally Sees The Light!

Now this is the new stuff. Coming straight from the secret Energy System labs, their brand new science fiction-flavored portable media player comes packed with a unique design line, which kind of brings a breath of fresh air in the electronics industry. In fact the Inngenio designs are quite catchy, given the fact th...

26 November 2007
03:30 GMT

Cyborg PMP from the Future Rips Off Terminator's Eye!

This portable media player looks too good to be true. In fact, some might say it does resemble some SF elements like Terminator's eye or a digital recognition button. Either way, the device is made in China, has no name whatsoever and reveals an alluring shape form that basically responds to the needs of today&#...

26 November 2007
02:45 GMT

Nokia Innovates the S60 Smartphone Software

Nokia announced that it continues to bring new innovations for the Symbian S60 operating system, in order to offer users the best mobile experiences. The new S60 OS will come with features that take the user experience to another level and help operators, manufacturers and developers to create new types of handsets, ...

17 October 2007
05:57 GMT

Sharp Develops Highly-Innovative LCD with Touch Screen and Scanner Functions

The people from Sharp have always been in the forefront of technological research and development and the company's latest announcement proves this only very well. Thus, at IFA 2007, Sharp has unveiled a future LCD display that will most certainly change the way in which we perceive and use various mobile device...

3 September 2007
11:06 GMT

Touch Screen Craze to Double in the Next 5 Years

Touch screen seems to have been the breakthrough technology lately. The iPhone might have taunted the market enough for everyone to have mobile phones with similar functions. The touch one seems to have been most appealing.Mobile devices equipped with touch screen have been available for a long time now. Actually, ma...

20 June 2007
03:16 GMT

HTC Will Make "A Major Announcement"

HTC promises to revolutionize the mobile phone concept on the 5th of June, through an invitation that will be released at a press event on that date.Apple's iPhone is thought to be launched on the 20th of June, which makes HTC's announcement just precede the release of the most highly expected mobile phone....

28 May 2007
08:14 GMT

A Solution to Feeling Buttons on the Touch Screen

Immersion is currently working on ways to improve the interaction between mobile phones and their users. Their research mainly regards making touch screen phones more reliable and easier to use.The problem with touch screen mobile phones is that users often make errors when pushing a button because of the lack of re...

3 May 2007
03:53 GMT


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