Remember the atracTable, the alternative to Microsoft's multitouch Surface tablet first demonstrated all the way back in October 2008? At the time Atracsys was tentatively offering to build the hardware to order; now, having sold their technology to Sony, there's a full scale commercial launch promised, with Pocket-lint being told that Sony "is going to indutrialize a 35-inch atracTable in order to compete against the Microsoft Surface."
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Sony atracTable multitouch table with 3D tracking due June 2010
Garmin-Asus A10 Android smartphone targets pedestrians
Garmin-Asus have announced their latest smartphone, the Garmin-Asus nuvifone A10, a new Android-based handset which is apparently optimized for pedestrian navigation. The A10 has a 3.2-inch HVGA touchscreen supporting multitouch, 5-megapixel camera, GPS and comes preloaded with mapping data and - optionally - cityXplorer guides to public transit systems.
While the marketing for the A10 is being targeted at those traveling on foot, automobile users aren't left behind either. In the box there's a powered audio mount for the A10, with a loudspeaker for more audible voice navigation prompts. Meanwhile there's also the usual bevy of Android apps together with Microsoft Exchange support and access to the Android Market.
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Nokia N8 gets official: €370 in Q3 2010 [Video]
Nokia have officially announced the N8 smartphone, the handset we saw prematurely reviewed (and somewhat panned) yesterday, and the first from the company to pack a 12-megapixel camera with Xenon flash, HDMI connectivity and Symbian^3 OS. As we've heard before, there's a 3.5-inch 640 x 360 capacitive touchscreen, GPS and 16GB of built-in storage plus a microSD card slot.
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$599 ASUS Eee Keyboard gets Amazon preorder
Ah, the ASUS Eee Keyboard; so long delayed it's almost become a techies' urban myth, the day of nettop reckoning looks almost upon us. A listing for the Eee Keyboard - which packs a netbook's components into a QWERTY keyboard form-factor, complete with a touchscreen display where the numeric keypad would be - has shown up on Amazon, accepting preorders for $599.
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Samsung NB30 Touch gets reviewed: decent multitouch but dim display
Having been officially launched earlier this week, Samsung's NB30 Touch netbook has already turned up for review on at least one German desk. GeekNews have been putting the 10.1-inch touchscreen ultraportable through its paces, and - despite it being a pre-production unit that they're looking at - they've come away impressed.
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Multitoe multitouch floor system promises walkable interface [Video]
Multitouch tables are passé; your feet are where it's at. Over at Professor Patrick Baudisch's Human Computer Interaction lab at the Hasso Plattner Institute they've been experimenting with using feet to control multitouch systems, but this is far more interesting than the walking piano Tom Hanks played in Big. In fact, the Multitoe system can not only differentiate between general footsteps and control steps, it can track multiple users and identify them by their feet.
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ASUS Eee PC T101MT finally arrives in US
It's taken them long enough, but ASUS' Eee PC T101MT - the 10.1-inch multitouch convertible netbook - is finally on sale and shipping in the US. Available through Amazon, the T101MT has an Intel Atom N450 processor, 1GB of RAM and a 160GB hard-drive, but the most interesting aspect is the multitouch-capable 1024 x 600 resistive touchscreen.
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ICD Gemini takes on iPad: 1GHz Tegra 2, 3G, multitouch & Android
Last we heard of ICD, the company were showing us their Tegra 2-based Vega and Ultra tablets at CES 2010; now they're back with details of a new model, the ICD Gemini, again using the second-generation 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra chipset and now paired with an 11.2-inch touchscreen (using either a resistive or capacitive panel, both of which support multitouch). Android does duty as the OS, and the specs certainly don't disappoint at first glance: integrated 3G with voice functionality, WiFi b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, together with USB peripheral support and twin cameras.
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Apple iPad Review
The Apple iPad is here, and if ever there was a contentious gadget, this is it. We met with Apple this past week to pick up one of a few iPads let out into the wild early, and have been playing with it ever since. Already the subject of countless discussions, arguments and parodies – not least because of what it doesn’t do rather than what it’s actually capable of – there’s also a grudging expectation that, if anyone can make tablets wildly popular, it’s probably Apple. So, does the iPad live up to its promise, or is this really just an oversized iPod touch too big (and too expensive) for your pocket? Check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.
KDDI Sharp IS01 MID gets video demos
There's nothing like bathing in the cool green glow of your KDDI Sharp IS01 to cheer you up, just as this happy model has found. If you can't get enough of the 5-inch multitouch-capable Android clamshell MID then Gigazine's hands-on report should be your next port of call; they've got lashings of video showing the IS01 in action, some of which you can see after the cut.
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iBUYPOWER Battalion Touch CZ-11 gets Core i7 and multitouch
Recently it's been all desktops from iBUYPOWER, but the company has outed a new notebook and it looks pretty decent. The iBUYPOWER Battalion Touch CZ-11 range packs Intel Core i7 processors, ATI Radeon HD 5650 graphics and a 15.6-inch Full HD 1920 x 1080 display, the latter of which is multitouch-capable.
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Apple sued over multitouch IP: iPad & iPhone imports under threat?
Apple's iPad might be shipping out to preorder customers, but there's at least one company who'd like to put a stop to it. Taiwanese company Elan Microelectronics have filed a suit against Apple with the US International Trade Commission (ITC) today, on the premise that the Cupertino company's multitouch implementation impinges on one of their own patents. If upheld, the ITC could block Apple from bringing iPads - along with iPhones, iPod touch PMPs and the Magic Mouse - into the US.
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