We have written repeatedly that Windows itself is one of the main reasons why touchscreen computers have never caught the general public's attention. The interface just wasn't designed for finger input. Like it or not, that's the truth. Windows was designed to be used with a mouse, and to a lesser extent, a pen...
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What if you could turn your skin into a touch-interface? That’s the idea driving Skinput, a system that takes advantage of the vibrations generated when we tap our body. The prototype is accurate enough that different parts of the body can be turned into switches that control a variety of functions, as the video...
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You’ll have to make do with this until April
Get thee to the clickery! The iPad is hitting the streets on April 3 and you can start pre-ordering on March 12.
As far as we can tell there was no real “delay” here, per se. As we discussed this week there was no month delay as...
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The AigoPad is just another example that 2010 will be the year of tablet computers. Not much is known about the slate just yet. All we really know is that the Chinese manufacturer states that Android will power the device and that’s good enough for us. Hopefully it will end up looking something like...
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