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Apple Now Has A Patent On Slide To Unlock

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2:30PM October 26, 2011 | Alex Kidman

This is going to get messy. Really messy. Apple’s been granted a patent on slide to unlock. You know what uses slide to unlock? Just about every other touchscreen UI out there, in one way or another. More »


Cars

Someday We’ll Eliminate The Dreaded ‘Are We There Yet?’

12:50PM July 21, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

How cool would it be if you could draw on your window and have the drawings move along with the car? Cool enough to keep the kids quiet for a few hours, don’t you think? More »


Computing

Intel: We Have The Recipe To Beat iPad

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11:30AM June 1, 2011 | Seamus Byrne

In a private Computex session with Gizmodo, Intel’s Francois Piednoel says he’s cracked the code on what makes the iOS experience better than the competition, and he’s spent the past few weeks teaching Taiwanese manufacturers the ‘recipe’ for success in their next generations of devices. And using last year’s Atom processors we touched a user experience that suggests he really has cracked the code. More »


Gadgets

I Wish This Kobo Touchscreen E-Ink eReader Was The Next Kindle

5:44AM May 24, 2011 | Casey Chan

Amazon. I know you guys are working on tablets or something but you should think about stealing this Kobo eReader Touch and using it as your next Kindle. Dude, it’s a touchscreen e-ink display. We’ve been wanting that forever ago. More »


Computing

Leaked Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Due Out This July

7:30AM April 25, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Lenovo is leaking like a poorly built ship this Easter Sunday: This Is My Next just broke word of a not-yet-officially acknowledged Honeycomb-equipped ThinkPad tablet, due out (with stylus) this July. More »


Computing

Wacom Bamboo Stylus Might Be The First Good Stylus For iPad

2:46AM April 19, 2011 | Casey Chan

Using a stylus with the iPad is pretty silly! But this Wacom Bamboo Stylus might not be. Not only does it have the Wacom name behind it, but the Bamboo Stylus has a tip (6mm) that’s 25 per cent narrower than most other stylii, which should help make the Bamboo Stylus more accurate. More »


Entertainment

Futuristic Jukebox Doesn’t Pretend To Be The Old Thing

12:00PM March 8, 2011 | Casey Chan

I’ve never known the jukebox as anything but a beautiful relic of a musical past. For me, at least, the jukebox never existed to just play music. Instead, it did double duty: neat to have in a bar, clever, vintage, classic, ironic, hipsterish, whatever. I’m sure people who really used jukeboxes in the past didn’t care about that, they just wanted to play a damn song for a nickel. And that’s what the makers of the Virtuo Jukebox think people still want in a jukebox: to play music. More »


Computing

Robotic Lego Arm Stress-Tests The Kno Tablet Over And Over Again

9:40PM January 31, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

That overpriced, oversized Kno tablet? A video look-behind-the-scenes has revealed some high-tech testing equipment – namely, a Lego robotic-arm used to test the touchscreens and ambient light sensors. Wicked sideburns on the Lego robot’s human-overlord too, I might add. More »


Coffins Go High-Tech With Touchscreens For Full Customisation

6:40AM December 2, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Must be grim work, assembling coffins in a factory that churns out 1100 daily. That’s alotta dead bodies. Batesville Casket Company, in Manchester, Tennessee, offers touchscreen computers to customers for choosing from 22 colours, plus all the trimmings. [Atlantic]


What If Your Entire Desk Were A Touchscreen?

6:20AM November 30, 2010 | Sam Biddle

Big touch surfaces are nothing new, but we like the approach taken here. A familiar form factor – the traditional sitting desk – mixed with the (now) ubiquitous tech of touchscreens. Is the BendDesk what your office will look like someday? More »