Apr 15

Multitouch pioneer Jazzmutant / Stantum makes cocky three finger pan from past to future of input

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Before the iPhone, Microsoft Surface or even Jeff Han’s famous 2006 demonstration at TED, a commercial multitouch display already existed. It’s a customizable music control surface called the Jazzmutant Lemur, and it dates back to at least 2004. Under the new name Stantum, Jazzmutant’s touchscreens continue to impress, and now that its groundbreaking original finally has a potential competitor in the iPad, company co-founder Guillaume Largillier has granted Create Digital Music a sizable interview to comment on the future of the technology. Amidst jabs at Apple for developing a solution only a “Neanderthal” could love, the co-founder hints that the $2000 Lemur might finally see a price drop, and that the company’s decided to license their tech to other multitouch tablet manufacturers. Be sure to bring your table salt before hitting our source link, as the second half of the piece is an editorial very much in Stantum’s favor, but you might hold off on the full pinch — it’s a pretty good read nonetheless.

Multitouch pioneer Jazzmutant / Stantum makes cocky three finger pan from past to future of input originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 15 Apr 2010 21:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 14

Samsung NB30 netbook gains touchscreen, inflated price tag

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A touchscreen on a netbook may not be everyone’s idea of a good time, but it looks like Samsung thinks there’s a sizable enough market for them, as it’s now introduced a touchscreen-equipped counterpart to its NB30 netbook. Dubbed the NB30 Touch, this version packs a 10.1-inch 1,024 x 600 touchscreen (matte, no less) and remains otherwise identical to the standard NB30, including an Atom N450 processor, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB or 250GB hard drive, and Windows 7 Starter Edition for an OS. Of course, the one other big change is the price, which comes in at €399 (or about $545) for the NB30 Touch, compared to just €279 (or $380) for the non-touchscreen version.

Samsung NB30 netbook gains touchscreen, inflated price tag originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:39:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 14

Onda VX560 looks like a slate, acts like a PMP, outputs 1080p

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The kids at Onda have had a sideline in nondescript PMPs for years now, but that doesn’t mean they lack dreams and aspirations, no sir! The VX560 shows ’em taking a cautious step up the evolutionary ladder with a 7-inch touchscreen slate that rocks 1080p video output via HDMI, support for a plethora of video formats (including H.264, AVI, MOV, MPG, and FLV), a 800 x 480 display, an array of ebook formats (including PDF, PDB, and CHM), and text-to-speech — although exactly what language it will be reading in is anybody’s guess. You know what else is “anybody’s guess?” When it will be released, and for what price.

Onda VX560 looks like a slate, acts like a PMP, outputs 1080p originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:47:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 14

Telstra’s landlocked T-Hub tablet phone launches in Australia (update)

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A few years back, Telstra — synonymous in Australia with “communication” — told Apple it had no business making a cellphone. Look how that turned out. To make a long story short, the company has since repented, and is on the verge of releasing an app-filled touchscreen phone of their own, the Telstra T-Hub, on April 20th. Thing is, this tablet stays plugged into your wall. Marketed as a “family organizer,” the T-Hub stores contacts, surfs Facebook, plays YouTube, displays photos, accesses personal bank accounts and even sends text messages like a smartphone, but does it all while connected to a landline telephone jack. While existing Telstra customers can get the device for $300 AUD, the company would of course prefer you get it for $35 with a 24-month service agreement… for a minimum total cost of about $1980 AUD with 2GB data per month. We’re not Australian, but compared to US iPhone pricing, that doesn’t sound terribly fair.

Update: Telstra spokesman Craig Middleton tells us the T-Hub isn’t permanently tethered to your wall. While the phone’s base station does connect to a landline telephone jack, the tablet assembly itself is a portable cordless phone with WiFi for web-connected apps. He also adds that the aforementioned 2GB data plan isn’t just for the T-Hub, but rather your entire home internet connection.

Telstra’s landlocked T-Hub tablet phone launches in Australia (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Apr 2010 04:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 12

G4 iMac turned into touchscreen monitor, relegated to Windows servitude (video)

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G4 iMac turned into touchscreen monitor, relegated to life of Windows servitude

Ahh, the sweet feeling of success — of completing a project that’s been lingering on for many moons. That is the feeling felt by the creator of the Dremel Junkie blog, who has for months been working on a project to take a 17-inch iMac G4 and turn it into a touchscreen monitor. It is, indeed, just a monitor, having been gutted to serve its purpose and is now displaying a signal from a Windows machine, of all things. But, the modder in question promises to rectify this situation shortly with a Mac Mini companion piece, which will surely make this mod feel a little more right. Video exploration after the break, and all the sordid details of its construction are included at the source link.

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G4 iMac turned into touchscreen monitor, relegated to Windows servitude (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 05

Evigroup Paddle shows up in manufacturer-provided picture gallery

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Man, we’ve been talking about the JooJoo so much lately, you must be sick to death of that thing. Just to balance things out, here’s a look at the first functional production units of Evigroup’s Paddle tablet. Running on a good old fashioned Atom CPU, this promises Windows 7’s limitless functionality (and battery strain) plus an extra-special 3D interface called Scale. It’s curious, therefore, not to see a single screenshot featuring said UI. We’re treated to vanilla Windows 7 throughout, suggesting that maybe somebody woke up to the fact that the processor inside this machine wasn’t exactly designed for heavy lifting and the Scale idea was mercifully shelved. Either way, this 10-incher doesn’t look all that shabby at all and the gallery at the source is well worth a quick perusal. We’ve got one more pic of this upstanding French gentleman after the break.

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Evigroup Paddle shows up in manufacturer-provided picture gallery originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 05 Apr 2010 07:32:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 03

Apple iPad review

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The Apple iPad. The name is a killing word — more than a product — it’s a statement, an idea, and potentially a prime mover in the world of consumer electronics. Before iPad it was called the Apple Tablet, the Slate, Canvas, and a handful of other guesses — but what was little more than rumor and speculation for nearly ten years is now very much a reality. Announced on January 27th to a middling response, Apple has been readying itself for what could be the most significant product launch in its history; the making (or breaking) of an entirely new class of computer for the company. The iPad is something in between its monumental iPhone and wildly successful MacBook line — a usurper to the netbook throne, and possibly a sign of things to come for the entire personal computer market… if Apple delivers on its promises. And those are some big promises; the company has been tossing around words like “magical” and “revolutionary” to describe what many have dismissed as nothing more than a larger version of its iPod touch. But is that all there is to this device? Is the hope that Apple promises for this new computing experience nothing more than marketing fluff and strategic hyperbole? Or is this a different beast altogether — a true sign that change has come to the world of the PC? We have the definitive answers to those questions (and many more) right here, so read on for our full review of the Apple iPad!

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Apple iPad review originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 03 Apr 2010 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apr 01

Kodak Slice touchscreen camera, Pulse WiFi frame, and PlaySport pocket camcorder now on sale… at JC Penney

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We’re not sure why Kodak is pushing its new Slice touchscreen camera out to JCPenney before any of the usual retail suspects, but there it is, looking radiant in “Radish” and marked up with a $100 premium over the usual $349 list price. If that doesn’t make any sense to you, you can also grab the 14 megapixel shooter with the 3.5-inch display, 720p video capture, and built-in search for $349 from JR.com or Kodak. Kodak’s also got the seven-inch Pulse WiFi digiframe that pulls photos from Facebook and the new PlaySport 1080p waterproof pocket camcorder up for sale now as well, at $129 and $149, respectively — and yes, you can buy those from Penney’s at a markup if you like, because the very fabric of our relationship to reality is unraveling in a heap on the floor of the Juniors department.

Kodak Slice touchscreen camera, Pulse WiFi frame, and PlaySport pocket camcorder now on sale… at JC Penney originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:11:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Mar 25

Motorola Droids Touchscreen is Brain Dead, Storm2 Fizzles

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Moto touch screens.jpgDevelopment consultant Moto Labs has published an intriguing look at how the touchscreens of various smartphones work, by tracing a test pattern across each.

The test used a robotic arm, with two differently sized styluses, as an attempt to figure out which touchscreens were the most accurate. Accuracy is important, the firm noted, both for selecting small blocks of text in a browser, as well as interacting with applications.

Note that the tests did not test multitouch or gestures, simply how the touchscreen recorded a touch in a given location. A deliberate gap was left in the top right-hand corner.

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Mar 24

T9 Trace lets you Swype through your text messages

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You may or may not yet be aware of the Swype virtual keyboard (comes preloaded on the Cliq XT from Motorola), but you’ll definitely be hearing about the T9 Trace from Nuance. This is because, although it’s fundamentally the same thing as Swype (but from a different maker), the T9 Trace is on offer from the company behind the T9 predictive text dictionary that pretty much everyone from your 7-year old nephew to your octogenarian grandpa has used. The big idea here is that you trace out the word on your virtual keyboard without lifting your finger off, with short stops at each letter you want to add being taken for input. Once you get over the seemingly unintuitive idea of abandoning those woodpecker taps for the grace of tracing, it promises to be a real fun and rapid way to input text. Nuance has bundled the whole thing with error correction, word prediction and auto-completion, while supporting 70 languages. The company has yet to tell us when the T9 Trace will be showing up on phones (touchscreens only, for obvious reasons), but you can check out video of the competing Swype implementation after the break.

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T9 Trace lets you Swype through your text messages originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:49:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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