Jan 13

Sony’s NWZ-X1000 Walkman PMP handled on video

Posted in: OLED, PMP, sony, Today's Chili, touchscreen, video

It looks like if you want to get a hands-on with Sony’s latest Walkman, the touchscreen NWZ-X1000, you’ve got to do two things: travel to Japan, and seriously glad-hand the product. Despite our efforts in Vegas, the Sony crew wouldn’t let us snag the player from under its glass housing, but the Stuff team gets to toy with the OLED-faced PMP in this video. From the looks of things, Sony is at pains to recreate something akin to Cover Flow, but the rest of the UI looks sadly like a whole bunch of Windows CE-based devices we see coming out of Asia on a daily basis. Of course, this might be an early iteration of the interface, so we’ll hold our final judgments till we get a thorough hands-on with the PMP. The player is set to come in 16GB and 32GB iterations, and will launch sometime this Summer. For now, enjoy the video after the break.

Update: Sony’s people tell us that you’re looking at $299 for the 16GB and $399 for 32 — right in line with the iPod touch.

[Via anythingbutipod]

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Jan 13

Shuttle’s X50 all-in-one desktop pulls up alongside the Eee Top

Posted in: PC, Today's Chili, touchscreen, Windows XP

While the Eee Top may get a lot of zombie-hand loving, it’s not the only game in town when it comes to cheapo all-in-one PCs. Shuttle announced its X50 desktop at CES as well, a system with more than just a few similarities to the competition, namely its CPU, base RAM, display size and resolution, chipset, GPU, and OS. In case you don’t know those by heart: 1.6GHz Intel Atom 330, 1GB of RAM, 15.6-inch,1366 x 768 resistive touchscreen display, 945GC mainboard, GMA 950 graphics, and Windows XP. The real difference is the hard drive — the Eee Top sports a 160GB, the X50 just 80GB — and the price point, with the Shuttle clocking in at $499 ($100 cheaper). Our take? We’re starting to see the emergence of what amounts to the netbook desktop — a one piece, low power system meant for the kids’ room, the kitchen, or grandma’s rest home suite. The Shuttle wins in the looks department, but don’t make any fast decisions — come its March launch, you’ll be seeing plenty of these.

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Jan 12

Apple’s 24-inch LED Cinema Display goes touchscreen courtesy of Troll Touch

Posted in: Apple, LCD, LED, monitor, Today's Chili, touchscreen

Anyone who has had the pleasure of seeing Apple’s 24-inch LED Cinema Display knows that it’s hard to lay off on the touching. No one knows that better than Troll Touch, who has just announced a touch panel integration kit for Apple’s freshest LCD. The touchscreen gets powered internally via USB, and the custom touchscreen overlay design doesn’t alter the panel’s form factor in any way. Those looking to dive in from scratch can order a touch-enabled version now for $2,299, but those looking to simply upgrade their own can ship it to Valencia, California along with $1,399 marked for integration. Talk about a steep price to pay for permission to touch.

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Jan 08

NIMble: $300 Android Desktop Phone Designed by iPhone Engineer

Posted in: Android, Apple, iPhone, multitouch, Today's Chili, top, touchscreen

We’ve all heard about the prospects of Android in the mobile-phone market, but the NIMble is an Android phone meant for actual desktops.

By Touch Revolution, the NIMble features a 7-inch multitouch screen (800×400)—that’s roughly 4x the screen area you’d see in the G1 loaded with 2.5x the pixels. In person, that’s sharp enough to my eyes.

Other features include a 624MHz Marvel processor, SD expansion (to supplement unspecified internal storage), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.

As for Android itself, that’s fully functional. But Touch Revolution has built their own software on top of the platform for entertainment and home networking stuff.
Operating the NIMble was speedy enough, though I had some responsiveness issues from the glass touchscreen. I’m pretty sure these issues will be fixed by the device’s September release, since Mark Hamblin, Product Design Lead on the original iPhone’s touchscreen, is busy ironing out the kinks. He explained that the touch gestures within Android need to be scaled to a larger screen.

So what about multi-touch? Hopefully the NIMble will have that capability at launch as well. But right now, Touch Revolution is busy building multi-touch architecture into Android itself. They’re also pretty eager for others to jump on the bandwagon.

The photos here aren’t of the final NIMble unit, but the finished product will look very similar…though we’re fairly certain that we’ll see a handset attached at launch. Coming this September, the NIMble will run $300, or free with a $10-$20/month phone home service contact.

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Jan 06

Video: SMART Table 50-inch multitouch Interactive Display Panel

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The last time we ran into SMART Table, they were demoing a very sturdy multitouch table to a group of schoolkids in Chicago, but they’re here at Macworld with some sexier tech — 50-inch and 65-inch multitouch plasma screens that interface with any OS X machine. The tech allows you to use the screen just like the built-in multitouch trackpad on newer MacBooks, so it works in basically any app, and while it’s super-pricey (they just smiled and said “thousands” when we asked), the main cost is the screen and not the touchpanel, so we could see it come down to earth sometime soon. Check the video after the break.

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Jan 02

Apple patent reveals ‘iPhone gloves’ for warmer hands-on experience

Posted in: Apple, capacitive, iPhone, ipod touch, IpodTouch, patent, patents, Today's Chili, touchscreen

A new Apple patent has been found that will assuredly warms the hearts (and hands) of many iPhone users currently enduring a cold winter. Originally filed a day before the iPhone’s June 28, 2007 launch, it details a glove with a thin, electrically conductive, “anti-sticky” inner layer that is able to function with a capacitive touchscreen. It also suggests the glove could have apertures on the fingertips for opening and closing the more protective outer layer. Of course, the concept is far from new — just do a quick Google search for “iPhone gloves” to see a wide variety of choices — and Apple doesn’t really dabble in this sort of iPhone / iPod accessory, but if Phil keeps his hands in his pockets for the first half of the Macworld keynote, we’re gonna start to get ideas.

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Dec 26

Apple files patent for gesture-based text editing

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An Apple patent unearthed by Mac Rumors named Swipe Gestures for Touch Screen Keyboards suggests a future direction the company might be taking which would substantially change interaction with devices like the iPhone. According to the document, the new system would allow for simple finger gestures like swipes to the left or right to control basic functions of text editing. Some movements outlined in the application include a left swipe for deletion of characters, right swipes for a space, and a swipe down in place of the return key. Of course, these types of gestures are nothing new (and frankly, nothing patentable we suspect), as applications on the company’s own devices — namely the jailbreak-only MobileTerminal — feature almost this exact implementation of gesture control, and Microsoft has had a similar (albeit stylus-based) concept in WinMo for years. Still, adding in this functionality to the software’s existing tools would likely improve navigation and input, and opens the door for solutions to the lingering (and annoying) copy / paste problems Apple seems to have.

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