Home automation is one of the coolest things that you can do to your home if you have the means to implement the often very costly system. The idea of being able to control your entire home from a single touchscreen in the wall or on a table is very appealing to lots of people. Elan is one of the big names in home automation controllers and gear. The company has a full line of all sorts of things from in-wall LCDs to amps and lots more.
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The PC faces stiff competition from things like smartphones, tablets, smart TV’s and more. As a consumer you are faced with a plethora of products competing for your dollars. PCs have become less interesting, yet we all need them. What kind of innovations do we need to see with PC’s in order to capture our attention again?
Nintendo “Project Café” Wii 2 caught on video?
A video apparently showing a sneak preview of Nintendo’s “Project Café” Wii 2 prototype has emerged, supposedly shot during a closed developer meeting. The clip, spotted by VG247, shows developers watching a presentation on the next-gen console’s hardware, with what looks to be a real prototype on the desk in front of them.
Future iPhone could slur speech when battery low
Your next iPhone could whimper like a tired puppy when its battery is close to empty, or get frantic when connected to 4G networks, if one of Apple's latest patent applications has its way. "Adjustable voice output based on device status" promises to adjust the voice output of various device status reports according to other factors, like sounding "more or less tired based on the battery level." It's not the only Apple patent app suggesting non-traditional communication, either; "Input devices and methods of operation" may be a dull title, but the application describes a new type of tactile feedback that could see buttons breathing on your fingers to guide them into place.
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Behold a Multi-Touchscreen Tablet with Removable Hard Drives, a Smartphone, and a Tablet
While this post began as a simple presentation of the industrial design concept we’re about to take a look at, it transformed ever so slightly into a work that explores what the possibilities could be for touchscreen conglomerations such as this. The concept at hand is called the Bento Laptop Tablet Hybrid and it’s designed and rendered by Rene Woo-Ram Lee. This concept is sent to us by our good friends at Yanko Design, a site dedicated to such conceptual works. This design features a laptop with a 15″ OLED touchscreen, a 1TB SSD drive, a solar-powered lithium-ion battery, an 11″ tablet computer and a 4″ phone, all of these bits able to sit in shallow depressions in the base of the laptop and connect as one device.
Nokia 3D Communicator tipped in dual-display phone/tablet patent app
Nokia is exploring a dual-screen clamshell smartphone design that, like the Nintendo 3DS, would have both 2D and 3D displays. According to a patent application by the company, titled "Autostereoscopic Rendering and Display Apparatus", the smartphone would have a glasses-free 3D display on its top panel and a regular 2D display underneath. A dual-camera array would be used to track eye position, creating an interactive 3D UI that could be controlled either via touching the bottom display (as on the 3DS) or via finger-tracking in 3D space.
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Amazon Tablet using E Ink Hydis FFS display for 2H 2011 release?
The Amazon tablet rumors refuse to die, and now there are whisperings of another OEM and even some component orders to throw into the mixture. After rumors last month that Samsung would be producing the Amazon tablet for a potential late-Summer release, now DigiTimes' sources have waded in with word that Quanta Computer will be handling production, using Fringe Field Switching LCD displays sourced from epaper manufacturer E Ink.
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Sony Freestyle Hybrid PC and “Ultimate” ultraportable notebook previewed
Sony's two Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets, the S1 and S2, aren't the only new ultraportable devices the company teased earlier in the week. Slotted neatly at the tail-end of the presentation were teasers for a further two models, PC Watch reports, the Sony Freestyle Hybrid PC - with a slide-and-tilt form-factor, similar to Samsung's Sliding PC 7 - and a super-slimline notebook, the Sony Ultimate Mobile PC.
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Shuttle X50V2 Plus touchscreen barebones gets Atom update
Shuttle's X50V2 barebones all-in-one PC has had another refresh, with a new Atom processor to replace the previous model's D510. The updated Shuttle X50V2 Plus now packs Intel's 1.8GHz dual-core Atom D525, paired with GMA 3150 graphics and support for up to 4GB of DDR3 memory. Up front there's still the same 15.6-inch touchscreen running at 1366 x 768.
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Nintendo Wii 2 “Stream” leaks: HD and Touchscreen controllers in late 2011?
Leaked details aplenty around Nintendo’s next-gen console to replace the Wii, believed to be codenamed Project Cafe, with IGN reporting on rumors that the Wii 2 will use innovative controllers with integrated “Screen Stream” technology that can stream games direct to an integrated color touchscreen. Mock-up images of the potential hardware – which may reach the marked as the Nintendo Stream, it’s suggested – have been discovered by NeoGAF, meanwhile, showing a somewhat retro, SNES-style console that’s said to be around the size of an Xbox 360.
Touchscreens About To Get Even Thinner
That touchscreen on your phone or tablet is about to get even thinner, thanks to a new substrate developed by AGC. The soda-lime glass measures just 0.28 mm, 15% thinner than the thinnest glass currently available (0.33 mm). It is also lighter, by 15%. The new glass is planned to enter mass production later this month.
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Lenovo ThinkPad X220 and X220T Tablet on sale, plus Edge E220s
Lenovo's ThinkPad X220 and X220T Tablet have gone up for sale, offering up to 24hrs of battery life and Intel Core i3 and i5 processors. Announced back in March, the notebooks are priced from $849 for the X220 and from $1,249 for the X220T. Both have 12.5-inch 1366 x 768 displays, with the X220T's recognizing multitouch gestures.
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