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Remember when Displax teased us earlier in the year with a polymer film that could take any conventional LCD, plasma or RPTV and turn it into a touchscreen? Yeah, well now that very technology is shipping to Average Joes and Janes like yourself your good pal Jim. Starting nowish, the outfit’s customizable Overlay Multitouch will be heading out to screens ranging from 32- to 103-inches in size in order to add multitouch capabilities to a screen that previously hated even the thought of being groped. Of course, with a starting tag of €1,300 ($1,805), we get the impression that most of the orders (at least initially) will be coming from corporations looking to jazz up their boardrooms. In related news, the company is also debuting a 42-inch Windows 7-based multitouch table that can detect up to four independent touches at once. The Oqtopus uses a specific kind of optical technology that allows bare fingers, styluses and even gloved hands to operate it, but with a starting price of €4,500 ($6,250), we’re guessing your own personal Santa is already signaling “no.”

Displax Overlay Multitouch turns your LCD or plasma into a touchscreen, demands a pretty penny originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Missed out on the limited run of Windows 7 Family Packs back in July of last year? You aren’t alone. In fact, it sold out in record time, and now that you’ve bitten the bullet and ponied up for a trio of retail copies, the folks in Redmond are having a laugh at your impatience. As a way to celebrate the nearing of the one year Windows 7 anniversary, Microsoft is now re-offering the Win7 Family Pack on its online store. As a refresher, $149.99 allows for Windows 7 Home Premium to be installed on up to three PCs, but Microsoft warns that the offer stands only while supplies last. Oh, and if you live outside of America? Look for your opportunity to arise on October 22nd.

Update: Amazon has it for just $140. Thanks, Stephen!

Update 2: Best Buy also has copies… while supplies last!

Microsoft brings Windows 7 Family Pack back: $150 covers three PCs originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:47:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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It’s been over nine months since Steve Ballmer whipped out the HP Slate at CES and divulged that there’d be Windows 7 “Slate PCs” hitting the market. It sure was a memorable keynote, but since that fateful day all we’ve got to show for actual Win 7 tablets are a slew of leaked videos of HP’s elusive device, information / trade show sightings of lots of similar products, and the less than stellar Archos 9. Until now that is. A small company, interestingly and rather ironically called Netbook Navigator, has managed to get its act together slightly ahead of the rest with its Nav 9 Slate PC. Starting at $599, the 8.9-inch resistive-touch Windows 7 Home Premium tablet is powered by an Intel Atom N280 processor and can be configured with up to 2GB of RAM and 32GB of flash storage. Yep, it sounds a heck of a lot like your first generation netbook with its keyboard cut off… and, well, that turns out to be just one of the Nav 9’s major problems. You’ll want to see what we mean in our full review after the break.

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Netbook Navigator Nav 9 Slate PC review originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple may have validated the tablet market with the successful launch of the iPad, but the competition won’t simply cede that space to Cupertino. From the Samsung Galaxy Tab and a host of other Android-based products, to HP’s ethereal Slate and rumored WebOS tablet to a potential “BlackPad” from RIM, everyone wants a piece of the tablet market. The net result? We’re going to see a whole host of devices starting in the fourth quarter of this year well into the first quarter of 2011, and based on what we’ve seen from various public leaks and vendor conversations, these products are going to be all over the place. Sadly, it appears many haven’t learned the lessons why ‘tweener devices failed in the past, and most of these devices will not do well in the market. Many of these efforts appear rushed to market before the holidays and few will be remembered by this time next year. It’s one thing to clone a successful product but imperfect clones usually tend to work out for the worst.

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Entelligence: Begun these tablet wars have originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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That’s right, folks: you’ve been looking around, dying for a Windows 7 slate to throw down your money on… so here you go. The CTL 2goPad SL10 (which we first spotted at Computex) features a capacitive touchscreen, an Intel Atom N450 CPU, a 250GB hard drive, and 2GB of RAM. Of course the tablet also fully supports both HTML 5 and Flash, and has a 1.3 megapixel webcam to boot. The 2goPad SL10 is available to pre-order now at $499, and orders are expected to begin shipping on October 15th.

CTL 2goPad SL10 Windows 7 tablet available to pre-order for $499 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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