The iPad may have taken the media by storm, but the JooJoo, formerly known as the CrunchPad, is back, and hot on Apple’s heels. The JooJoo’s starting off full production, that’s right and maker Fusion Garage has announced that the product is set to start shipping this month.
Smartphones have been around for years, Google want to coin Superphone and now Citrix and Open Kernel Labs are pushing their idea of the Nirvana phone; if there’s one thing you can say about the mobile segment it’s that it’s never short of a niche or two. Nirvana, say Citrix, is being able to leave your laptop at home or at the office, and instead rely on your smartphone, not just for cut-down mobile versions of apps but, after plugging in full-sized peripherals, having exactly the same access to your main system as you would sat at your desk.
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Apple’s iPad table may be getting all the attention, but how about a far bigger touchscreen? We’ve seen multitouch tables – like Microsoft’s Surface – before, that are capable of responding to items placed onto the tabletop, but a collaborative project called Pictionaire by Microsoft Research and University of California, Berkeley promises to even better combine the physical and virtual worlds.
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The Wall Street Journal has dropped a major Apple tablet bombshell this evening – among the new surfaced rumors are that Apple envisions its tablet as a device that can be shared by various members of a household, and may even recognize their faces via a possible webcam.
I switched! Yes indeed, I dropped AT&T and the iPhone 3GS in favor of the Google Nexus One and T-Mobile. I’d made many excuses as to why I put up with the painful AT&T network, from having apps that I needed to do my work to simply the daily habit of using the iPhone. When Google announced the Nexus One last week I wasn’t even overly excited; I knew I wouldn’t be switching until I could rely on it for my day-to-day tasks.
The week of CES each year is a week that geeks in the industry and geek consumers look forward too with glee. At the same time those of us who have been to the show have to temper the gadget lust we get going into the show with the knowledge that his is one of the most grueling weeks of the year to be a pro geek. Just look at the number of new items announced this week; it was hard to even whittle the list down to some of the coolest gear of the week for our second week in review of 2010.
As I’m sure you very well know there is a a massive amount of options when it comes to keyboards. With most being like the one just before it, Microsoft’s Arc seems to be an exception to the rule. The ARC is a wireless keyboard designed with both function and style in mind, the overall size of the unit is just 12×6 inches but in no way means it isnt a feature rich device.
Plastic Logic have officially unveiled their QUE ereader, and as expected they’re heavily pushing their innovative touchscreen technology and flexible plastic e-paper. In fact the QUE is not solely being positioned as an ebook reader; Plastic Logic have also given it email and calendar support, together with Outlook sync, and rather than clutter the all-plastic bezel with hardware controls the UI is 99-percent touch and gesture based.
Spring Design have announced pricing and availability details for their Alex dual-display ebook reader, and as we expected without the might of Barnes & Noble behind them it’s going to come in more expensive than what you’d pay for a nook. As of February 22nd you’ll be able to order an Alex – which has a 6-inch E Ink display up top, and a 3.5-inch color touchscreen beneath – from the Spring Design site, where it will be priced at $399.
Your money does get you a few extra features that B&N deny to nook owners. For instance, Spring Design are billing the Alex as the first ereader to offer internet access while you read, with the ability to instantly flip pages from the smaller browser display up to the larger e-ink panel for easier reading. They’ve also left access to the underlying Android OS open, which means you can check email, download third-party Android apps and do pretty much everything you’d do on an Android smartphone.
We’ve seen virtual keyboards before, but the technology has never quite taken off. But this is quite exceptional. UK-based Light Blue Optics (LBO) has unveiled a revolutionary compact projector that lets users interact with images projected onto a flat surface, essentially turning it into a touch screen. Remarkably, it has built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, which allows users to access and connect with internet-based applications and engage in social networking and multimedia sharing via the projector itself, which runs Adobe Flash Lite 3.1.
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