Touchscreen Edge 800 to make its Aussie debut at the UCI Road Cycling World Championship in Geelong later this month.
What would you like to see in a HTC tablet? Something running Android? Chrome OS? A touchscreen built by N-Trig, the same guys who were behind the Microsoft Surface?
Today, no other tablet has captured the public’s eye so much as the iPad – owing at least somewhat to thin competition. But Technologizer’s Harry McCracken says the tablet arena is about to get more crowded than a frat basement.
The touchscreen has given modern computing a lot of its feeling and spirit. The touchscreen does not belong in vending machines. Fake food and real samples, tantalisingly top-lit and warmed in an incandescent bath, are what stokes my stomach.
Who needs Texas Instruments? Not Matt Stack, creator of the Open SciCal. His home-made, 100 per cent open-source graphing calculator not only blows away the functionality of store-bought devices, but is the “ultimate status symbol among the nerdiest of the nerds”.
Look, this DIY LCD pinball machine is definitely impressive. I’m just wondering what the point is.
Could it be a phone, a netbook or even an ereader/tablet like the Microsoft Courier? The above patent has surfaced via HTC, showing both screens working as one, or split so one is a virtual keyboard, the other, the UI.
A touchscreen iMac definitely makes sense when Lenovo, HP and the like are doing similar all-in-one touchscreens, so it’s of note that Apple’s re-filed a patent for the “shape detecting input device”.
