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• Acturion's Victum Tablet 8 is the UMPC for soldiers of fortune

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:23 am

  Tags: Acturion, Ruggedized, Umpc, Victum Tablet 8, Victumtablet8

  named Acturion Victum Tablet 8 comes in. The company, which is a specialized military and industrial vendor, says that the 8.4-inch, Windows or Linux rocking tablet is resistant against drop, shock, vibration, high and low temperature, rain, and dust and sand, which should make it the perfect companion on those cold, lonely nights. The

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• Tough Laptop: Getec V100 Tablet PC Laughs in the Face of Danger

  Published: August 2, 2007, 9:15 am

  Tags: Getec, Laptop, Military, Rugged, Tablet Pc, Tough, Tough Laptop, V100

  Getec's V100 is a tough laptop, a really tough laptop. You won't have to rely on some pathetic drop-sensor to protect this machine. In fact, you probably have to throw it down the stairs just to boot it up. It's built as a military machine, but we lucky civilians can get now one, too. The case is magnesium alloy, and it's built so that dust,

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• Sprint to offer WiMAX-enabled Nokia N800 in 2008?

  Published: August 9, 2007, 12:54 pm

  Tags: Broadband, Internet Tablet, Internettablet, Mobile Broadband, Mobilebroadband, N800, Nokia, North America, Northamerica, Usa, Wimax

  forward to the N800 Internet Tablet's inevitable successor, it seems like Sprint may have something else in mind. According to LinuxDevices, the operator "will offer a mobile WiMAX-enabled version of Nokia's N800 Internet Tablet to North American customers next year," which reportedly falls in line with the carrier's grand scheme of making 4G

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• Jazzmutant's multitouch tablet works with a stylus as well

  Published: August 17, 2007, 2:11 pm

  Tags: Dexter, Jazzmutant, Lemur, Multitouch, Tablet Pc, Tabletpc

  under: Displays, Tablet PCs The Jazzmutant folks have been doing multitouch since way before it was in vogue, with patents reaching back to 2004 and some nifty tech to back it up. They spend most of their time on the Lemur and Dexter media control surfaces, but they've been playing around with Tablet PCs, and their first prototype is a

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• IOGEAR's Digital Scribe lets you ink up any PC

  Published: August 21, 2007, 9:41 am

  Tags: Digital Pen, Digital Scribe, Digitalpen, Digitalscribe, Iogear, Pen, Tablet

  plunge can unlock all those tablet features without breaking the bank, and the three of you who write faster than you type can doodle away at meetings. We still lose too many pens to drop a Benny on one of these things, but at least the tech is getting more accessible. Available now, according to IOGEAR. Read Permalink Email this

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• Users complaining of bezel separation on Lenovo X60 / X61 tablets

  Published: August 22, 2007, 12:23 pm

  Tags: Bezel, Bezel Problem, Bezelproblem, Lenovo, Tablet, Tablet Pc, Tabletpc, X60, X61

  under: Laptops, Tablet PCs Lenovo's X60 and subsequent X61 tablets were both pretty well received when they were first released, but it seems that quite a few users have since found themselves somewhat less satisfied with their purchase, with widespread reports of problems with the bezel cropping up virtually since day one. Apparently, the

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• Genius offers up G-Pen F610 pen tablet

  Published: August 24, 2007, 10:23 am

  Tags: F610, G Pen, Genius, Kye Systems, Kyesystems, Pen, Pen Tablet, Pentablet

  control combo. As for the tablet itself, it measures in at six- x ten-inches, plays nice with Vista and OS X, and features a pen with nearly one year of battery life. Regrettably, Genius has yet to open its trap in regard to a price.[Via PCLaunches] Read Permalink Email this CommentsOffice Depot Featured Gadget: Xbox 360 Platinum

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• Philips' new Prestigo SR-M8015 remote control "tablet"

  Published: September 10, 2007, 6:16 pm

  Tags: Philips, Prestigo, Remote Control, Remote Tablet, Remotecontrol, Remotetablet, Sr M8015, Sr M8015, Srm8015

  line is actually a large "tablet" remote, with a plethora of buttons at your two-handed disposal (including access to 15 separate devices), a color LCD screen in the center, and the totally antiquated / sexist "his and hers" option -- just in case you can't agree on any presets with your spouse / lover / good "buddy." Apparently the finish

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• Remote Control: Philips Prestigo Remote Bigger Than Really Big Human Head

  Published: September 11, 2007, 11:23 am

  Tags: Philips, Prestigo, Remote Control, Sr M8015, Tablet Remote

  The lunch box-sized tablet remote -- will include chrome and "hot-stamped" detailing. The device is expected to be out in a couple of months and should retail somewhere between $100-$150 dollars. It can also, in times of trouble, be used as a raft. [UberGizmo via RemoteShoppe]

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• Modders create inexplicable, gigantic Nintendo DS

  Published: September 13, 2007, 2:26 pm

  Tags: Diy, Giant Ds, Giantds, Hack, Huge Ds, Hugeds, Mod, Nintendo, Tablet Pc, Tabletpc

  and figuratively. Using two tablet PCs and some type of interface which allows the game system to be controlled by / displayed on the larger screens, these DS fans have created the ultimate antithesis to the original system -- for no apparent reason other than the fact that they could. Check the video after the break to see the madness in

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• Panda Love: Wacom Scraps Graphire for Bamboo

  Published: September 13, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Bamboo, Drawing, Eraser, Gadgets, Graphire, Home Entertainment, Panda Love, Tablet, Wacom

  design, but lacks a larger tablet option, a mouse or even an eraser on the pen. But it's relatively cheap at $69.99. The Bamboo Fun, while looking significantly goofier, does include the pen, a larger tablet option and the mouse. But these extras bump up the price to $99.99 for the smaller tablet and $199.99 for the medium-sized one. Look for

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• Wacom Scraps Graphire For Bamboo

  Published: September 13, 2007, 2:54 pm

  Tags: Gadgets, Bamboo, Gadgets, Graphire, Home Entertainment, Tablet, Wacom

  Wacom has replaced its old consumer model, Graphire, with a new two-model line called Bamboo and Bamboo Fun. First off, neither one of the new models can recognise that your pen is tilting, change functions depending on what application you're running, or use other non-Bamboo specific drawing pens.

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• Wacom shipping Bamboo tablets in the US

  Published: September 15, 2007, 6:57 am

  Tags: Bamboo, Bamboo Fun, Bamboofun, Tablet, Wacom

  and inexpensive Bamboo input tablets a few months ago, but it looks like the company is getting ready to ship both the $79 Bamboo (aimed at casual photo retoucher) and the $99 (small) and $199 (medium) Bamboo Fun, which costs more because it comes with a mouse and is apparently more fun. Both models feature four ExpressKeys, the "touch ring" zoom

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• Haier's new outrageously priced laptop/tablet PC hybrid

  Published: September 17, 2007, 1:55 am

  Tags: Haier, Laptops, Tablet Pc, Bluetooth

  came across their new laptop/tablet PC hybrid. The new laptop / tablet PC puts many others to shame when it comes to pricing. The beast rocks an Intel Core Duo U2500 processor, an Intel 945GM chipset, 2GB of RAM, an 80GB hard drive, WiFi connectivity (Sorry...no 802.11n), a fingerprint scanner, Bluetooth connectivity, and an 8.6-inch widescreen

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• Wacom celebrates 25 years with Intuos3 Special Edition pen tablet

  Published: September 18, 2007, 9:40 pm

  Tags: Anniversary, Birthday, Intuos3, Intuos3 Special Edition, Intuos3specialedition, Limited Edition, Limitededition, Special Edition, Specialedition, Wacom, Writing Tablet, Writingtablet

  Intuos3 Special Edition pen tablets in a variety of sizes including 6- x 8-, 6- x 11-, and 9- x 12-inches. Each tablet touts "a refined and sophisticated black and gun metal gray color scheme," Wacom's Classic Pen to compliment the Intuos3 Grip Pen, an accessory kit, and a transparent overlay "to substitute with the traditional gray overlay."

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