Devices like the Windows Surface have been in development for what feels like an age, and delivered very little. Now 3M Touch Systems is showing off a 46-inch prototype touchscreen table at CES that allows up to 60 touch points, and sounds like it might actually be useful. More »
My desk is boring. My walls are boring. My windows are boring. I need to liven them up by turning them into musical instruments that detect and recognise my touch. Fortunately, that’s cheaper and easier than it sounds. More »
You can change the settings in preferences, of course, but Mac OS X Lion has trackpad scrolling backwards from what’s normal. Instead of two finger scrolling down making pages go down, it goes up, like if you were touching the screen. Like iOS. As if we needed more indication that Apple is trying to unify their touch computing with their regular computing. [9to5Mac]
And it doesn’t take long for new cases to be spruiked. Five minutes, to be precise. Although there is at least a strong Aussie connection. More »
It’s taken forever, but Sony has finally confirmed that they’ll be launching their shiny new eReaders in Australia. More »
Flash on the iPad/iPhone will never happen, right, and the reasons have run the gamut from “Apple vendetta” to “Flash is an energy and resource hog.” Is the real, mind-numbingly simple explanation all about touch, mouse cursors and hovering? Possibly! More »
