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Tokyoflash digital pocket watch adds touch to an old classic

Chris Davies, Dec 8th 2011 Discuss [0]

Arch geekwatch manufacturers Tokyoflash have revealed their latest special edition, the Kisai Rogue Touch Pocket Watch, ideal for the distinguished systems engineer who prefers a Saville Row suit rather than a Star Wars t-shirt. Based on the existing Rogue Touch but trading the strap for a pop-open glass cover and a fetching chain, the digital display uses Tokyoflash's usual odd combination of chips and dots to show the time in two different timezones. Read The Full Story

Touchscreen Ultrabooks to rival MacBook Air and iPad in pipeline

Chris Davies, Dec 7th 2011 Discuss [8]

Touchscreen ultrabooks to challenge the growing tablet market are expected to debut alongside Windows 8, according to sources in the manufacturing chain, as notebook makers look to differentiate their ultraportables from the MacBook Air. A new breed of LCD displays and touch panels to go with them have already begun sampling, DigiTimes' insiders claim, with new designs required in order to work with the sub-0.8-inch thickness Intel specifies for the ultrabook segment. Read The Full Story

Samsung PixelSense LCD multitouch displays hit mass production

Chris Davies, Dec 1st 2011 Discuss [1]

Samsung isn't just relying on Microsoft's second-gen Surface SUR40 for sales of its in-pixel multitouch LCD panels: the company has begun mass production of the 40-inch display, and is eyeing other potential implementations of the 50-point multitouch system. What makes Samsung's screen special is the PixelSense optical sensors, embedded in with the display itself, and capable of not only tracking multiple points of finger contact, but of capturing images of whatever objects are placed on top of it. Read The Full Story

Awesome EXOdesk has interactive 40-inch touchscreen embedded

Shane McGlaun, Nov 28th 2011 Discuss [3]

You can put a 40-inch touchscreen on top of your desk if you are so inclined, but the cool EXOdesk is the first piece of furniture I have seen with a big 40-inch touchscreen inside the desk surface. The geeks over at TheLongClimb have a bunch of photos of the EXOdesk along with some of the interactive screens that the big touch panel in the surface can show. Read The Full Story

Kobo Touch with Offers up now for $99, competes with $79 Nook

Chris Burns, Nov 23rd 2011 Discuss [1]

It's another battle of the e-readers, ladies and gentlemen, the same thing that's been going on for the past handful of years whenever the winter holiday season rolls around, and this year it's a battle of the prices - Kobo Touch with Offers is the newest offering, available now, from the big K, offering you their least expensive price for the cheap exchange of ads in the interim. What you get is the same great Kobo Touch e-reader you know and love (but might never have owned until now) but with advertisements on the display whenever you put it to sleep. That's how they make it so inexpensive, and that's what they're putting up for competition with the short discount of the newest generation Nook e-reader which is $79 on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Read The Full Story

Kyobo mirasol eReader flaunts color e-paper on video

Chris Davies, Nov 23rd 2011 Discuss [3]

Qualcomm still hasn't announced any plans for a mirasol-based ereader outside of the Kyobo model launched in Korea this week, so we're having to make do with vicarious enjoyment such as this live demo of the color device in question. Fresh to YouTube and apparently filmed at a display section in one of Kyobo's retail stores, the eReader looks pleasingly responsive with its 1GHz Snapdragon processor. Read The Full Story

Kyobo eReader delivers mirasol and Android

Chris Davies, Nov 21st 2011 Discuss [9]

Kyobo Book Centre and Qualcomm have revealed the world’s first ereader to use a mirasol color e-paper display, the Android-based Kyobo eReader. On sale in South Korea today, priced at the equivalent of $310, the Kyobo eReader is targeted at education customers rather than would-be iPad buyers, and runs Android 2.3 with a locked-down custom UI on a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S2 processor.

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Microsoft Surface SUR40 up for pre-order

Chris Davies, Nov 17th 2011 Discuss [2]

Samsung has put the second-gen Microsoft Surface SUR40 up for pre-order, with 23 countries - including the US and much of Europe - getting the chance to pick up the slimmed-down multitouch worksurface. Targeted at retail, healthcare, education and hospitality, the Windows 7 based table has a Full HD 1080p 40-inch display covered with a sheet of toughened Gorilla Glass. Read The Full Story

Haptic touchscreen tech creates virtual textures [Video]

Chris Davies, Nov 16th 2011 Discuss [1]

A new haptic touch system that can dynamically change the physical feel of a control surface beneath the fingertip has been developed, potentially revolutionizing touchscreens and portable devices. Swiss EPFL researchers discovered that a piezoelectric surface that flexes at the micron level can create a textured panel a user's finger can perceive. Read The Full Story

BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 official

Chris Davies, Nov 15th 2011 Discuss [0]

RIM has announced its two latest BlackBerry 7 smartphones, the Bold 9790 and Curve 9380, the latter being the first Curve to use an all-touch design. Set to go on sale "in the coming weeks" the two phones each have NFC support; the Bold 9790 pairs a 1GHz processor with a touchscreen and QWERTY keyboard, along with 8GB of integrated storage and a microSD card slot. Read The Full Story

Nokia GEM concept clad entirely in touchscreens [Video]

Chris Davies, Nov 10th 2011 Discuss [2]

Nokia Research loves its concept phones – the flexible Kinetic concept was one of our favorite things at Nokia World last month – and for the team’s 25th anniversary they’ve produced this, the Nokia GEM. Built around the idea of the entire phone’s surface being a touch-sensitive display – front, sides and back – GEM learns from your most common tasks and adapts its default appearance to suit, so if you play games most of the time the phone will usually look like a gamepad.

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Reviews

WIMM One Developer Kit Review

Chris Davies, Nov 9th 2011 Discuss [7]

The WIMM One has a worthy ambition: shifting information from your smartphone screen to your wrist, and allowing you to get on with life rather than pulling your phone from your pocket every thirty seconds. To do that, WIMM‘s smart watch harnesses Android, a high-tech display and more sensors than you’d expect from the standard Rolex or Omega. The company also has its eye on smart watch world domination, with enthusiastic plans for third-party developers and hardware manufacturers. The WIMM One Developer Kit is the first step in that journey; check out the full SlashGear review after the cut.