Microsoft Buys Perceptive Pixel To Make Windows 8 PCs More Powerful
Microsoft and large touch display company Perceptive Pixel Inc. (PPI) have announced their collaboration to work together in the near future. Actually all in all, Microsoft acquires Perceptive Pixel, one of the market leaders in the development of large-scale, unlimited multi-touch devices. Both the parties didn’t disclose their deal or any other plan. Microsoft has just hinted only to use the technology for their upcoming Windows-based PCs.
PlayBase+: A Tablet For Kids Powered by Android
A kids friendly tablet named PlayBase+ has been launched and the company demands that this tablet is the world’s first antibacterial kids tablet. Its antibacterial touchscreen display is sensitive and easy to clean medical grade silicone cover. This tablet is preloaded with several kids friendly apps which is powered by Zoodles.
Toshiba DX735 All-In-One Pc With 23-Inch Multitouch
Toshiba bring a new member in it’s All-In-One Pc family. The new DX735 features a 23-inch 1080p, multitouch panel is a Windows 7 PC. This all-in-one Pc desktop PC powered by a Core i5 or i7 and 4GB of RAM. The features includes Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, a 1TB hard drive, a DVD drive and a lone USB 3.0 port. To connect with a game console or cable box there is also an HDMI in jack for use.This DX735 All-In-One Pc expected for starting price of $957 and starts shipping from Best Buy on October 2nd. Checkout the press release bellow for more.
Apple Physics Metaphoric Gestures For iOS Patent
A recently uncovered Apple patent filing shows the company has looked into using more advanced physics metaphors in a mulitouch environment to replace the traditional virtual desktop and user can make an intuitive, physical gesture with a first device, which can be detected by one or more onboard motion sensors. The plan to connect devices also brings in the motion sensors inside the iPad and iPhone, showing an iPhone being held over an iPad to pour icons from one to the other……….
32″ Multi-Touch Android Running Digital Signage Display By SKR Technology
“SKR” a South Korea company has come up with a new prototype multi-touch system that is powered by Google’s Android as the operating system of choice, delivering 32″ of viewing. Guess you can be more accurate than ever in a game of Angry Birds on any kind of game like this. It will run off a regular Android terminal which is connected via USB to the touch sensors, and HDMI to the display port, it perfectly replicates the android interface and can also display Full HD video.
Panasonic Upgrades ToughBook C1
Panasonic has revamped its Toughbook C1 convertible tablet PC with some major spec upgrades, which enables the device to be 30 percent faster than its predecessor and t will sport a 320GB hard drive for the base model, boasting up to a dozen hours of battery life, 2GB RAM that can be expanded to four times the amount, an Intel Core i5-2520M vPro processor (2.50GHz with Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz), and up to 30% faster boot up time compared to its predecessor. Panasonic says you can expect twelve hours from a pair of hot-swappable batteries or six hours with one and it’ll now start at $2,599 instead of $2,499 when the new model rolls out next month…………..
Apple Grabs Touchscreen Patent For iPhone, Making Trouble For Nokia, Samsung & Its Competetors
Apple granted patent for portable multifunction devices with multitouch screens and the USPTO has awarded the Cupertino crew a patent that’s sure to raise few eyebrows amongst its competitors. Apple’s patent essentially gives it ownership of the capacitive multitouch interface the company pioneered with its iPhone, to produce a new round of lawsuits over the now-ubiquitous multitouch interfaces used in smartphones made by the likes of HTC, Samsung, Motorola, Research in Motion, Nokia, and others that run operating systems similar in nature to Apple’s iOS…………
Acer Shows Off New Consumers Desktop Models And Touch Screen Display
Acer unveils new M and X Series value-priced desktops, 23-inch touch-screen LCD monitor and the outfit’s showing off gear for kids who’ve got a teensy bit more room in the dorms. Acer M series is a handsome all-black mid-tower PC that concentrates on the expansion crowd, leaving two open PCIe x1 and PCIe x16 slot open for users to configure and upgrade themselves later on and both owers have a staid black chassis with Acer’s clear.fi media streaming software on board. The M series is clearly for power users, with Core i3 and quad-core AMD Athlon II x4 processor options, 6GB of RAM, 1TB of hard drive space, optional discrete graphics and a storage tray on top housing four USB 2.0 sockets and headphone and mic ports………
InFocus Mondopad All-in-One Giant Tablet
InFocus Mondopad is a 55-inch multitouch display with an identity crisis, equipped with WiFi and a 720p webam / soundbar, will bring pad-like functionality to your next presentation in a big way. The proprietary software mimics the feel of a mobile OS with basic apps like a whiteboard and web browser, as well as support for Office, JPG, and PDF files. Also inside is Intel’s vPro tech, enabling remote access and file sharing with mobile devices……..
LG V300 All-In-One PC
LG has announced a new all in one PC at this years Computex, the LG V300 and you’ll get a second generation Intel Core i7 processor, AMD Radeon HD 6650M graphics, a 750GB hard drive, 8GB of RAM, and a Blu-ray player all packed inside the system’s slender 1.8-inch thick frame………
Fujitsu’s LifeBook T901 Tablet PC
Fujitsu has just lunched LifeBook T901 tablet PC. That machine looming large at the top of this page is Fujitsu’s LifeBook T901 tablet PC and it’s now for sale in the USA. This LifeBook T901 tablet PC now on sale in the US, starting at $1899.
New Gestures For Touchscreen Developed By Microsoft
Hrvoje Benko, a researcher at Microsoft is working on methods of recognizing shapes formed by hands and equating those with spatially-consistent gestures and putting the side of your hand down like a wall forms a straight line that could be used for a boundary, cropping or pushing objects.It’s a very natural extension of how you interact with a surface and that’s how you interact with most surfaces………….
Toshiba Reveals 7.0-inch LTPS TFT LCD
Toshiba reveals 7-inch LCD with integrated touch, just 1mm thick and as-yet-unnamed technology seeks improvement in a roughly similar way to Super AMOLED, by fusing the capacitive touch layer and LCD.This LCD is less than half the thickness of a conventional LCD touchscreen and weight is also halved and surface reflection is reduced by 10 percent………..
Ideum MT55 HD Multitouch Table
Ideum has unveiled new MT55 HD Multitouch table. It offers a large 55-inch diagonal HD touchscreen, and has everything built in to drive fully custom multitouch applications. The MT55 HD has an LED-backlit 1080p display, and can detect 32 points of touch at the same time, so multiple people can interact with it simultaneously.
m.Pad Tablet PC Concept
German designer Volker Hübner has developed a new tablet who calls it the M.Pad. The M Pad is a design Tablet PC concept with an 15.6 inch OLED-Display. The designer Volker Hübner integrate nine fixed buttons, such as ALT, CTRL, etc., and two programmable buttons rockers with e-ink display, with up to 24 short-cuts for each software application can be assigned individually.
