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• Sharp's Multitouch New LCD Panel Can Go Up to 12 Inches (I Smell an Apple Multitouch Tablet)

  Published: August 31, 2007, 3:43 pm

  Tags: Screens, Hardware, Lcd, Multitouch, Sharp, Touchscreens

  Those manufacturers of multitouch devices of the high visual quality and resilience of the iPhone's might have another option from Sharp. According to Impress, the LCD veterans have made a 3.5 inch, 480 x 320 screen, capable of multitouch. These can be made up to 12 inches in diagonal size. Perfect for a portable.

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• Apple Applies for Patent for Pressure-Sensitive Touchscreens

  Published: October 5, 2007, 10:50 am

  Tags: Screens, Apple, Patents, Screens, Touchscreens

  finger on its touchpads and touchscreens, Apple has applied for a patent for a "Force Imaging Input and Device System," which amounts to a spring-like device underneath the touchscreen or touchpad. The pressure-sensitive "force detector" layer would create a separate set of data, or image, that could add another dimension to interacting with

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• Apple working on pressure sensitive touchscreens

  Published: October 6, 2007, 11:00 am

  Tags: Apple, Coverflow, Design, Iphone, Patents, Pressure Sensitive, Screen, Touchscreens

  but for pressure sensitive touchscreens. Right now, the iPhone can tell where you're touching it, but not how hard you're pressing on it. The device described in the patent could do just that, and use the force information "for purposes of providing command and control signals to an associated electronic device."Pretty interesting. I can't

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• Jeff Han's Media Wall Available Now

  Published: October 7, 2007, 11:14 pm

  Tags: Screens, Giant, Jeff Han, Multitouch, Screens, Touchscreens

  We bumped into Jeff Han back at Nextfest and absolutely loved the guy, as well as his slightly-buggy-at-the-time Perceptive Pixel multitouch system. That very device, renamed the Media Wall, is now available for purchase. Sure, we are a little disappointed the $100,000 starting price point is not lacking a few zeros, but we are still excited by

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• Apple Applies For Another Force Sensitive Touchscreen Patent

  Published: October 11, 2007, 2:45 pm

  Tags: Screens, Apple, Patents, Touchscreens

  With this patent and the one filed last week, Apple's got more force sensitivity than Luke and Darth combined. The latest one, titled "Force and Location Sensitive Display", detects both where your finger is and how hard you're pressing down on a display. Skipping over the technical details of how this is done, the end result is that you've got a

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• Apple Tactile Touchscreen Patent Suggests Braille Bumps and Sub-Screen Keys

  Published: October 25, 2007, 12:25 pm

  Tags: Hardware, Apple, Braille, Patents, Tactile, Touchscreens

  Apple's latest patent filing is for a tactile touchscreen. It's not a new idea, but while companies LG and Alpine use vibration technology to make you feel like you are touching something distinct, the Apple patent suggests that you actually will touch something physical. One idea is for Braille-like bumps to emerge from the screen. Another,

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• HP Launches Touchscreen Troika for Holidays

  Published: October 31, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Cameras, Computers, Hardware, Computers, Ipaq, Printers, Touchscreens

  HP's rolling out a trio of touchscreen-y goods for the holidays, in addition to the iPAQ 310 Travel Companion we saw almost two months ago: a new TouchSmart PC, digital camera and photo center. First up, the $299 HP Photosmart R937 Digital Camera shoots at 8MP with a 3x optical zoom and has a 3.6-inch touchscreen display with a virtual keyboard

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• VW's Touchscreen UI Looking Mighty Apple-y

  Published: November 16, 2007, 2:28 pm

  Tags: Vehicles, Apple, Cars, Touchscreens

  2009 model year are getting touchscreens. I like all this speculation, frankly, and would be pretty pleased to see solid Cupertino UIs on the road. [Autoblog Carspace via Engadget]

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• Touchscreen-Enabled HDD Enclosure Keeps Your Porn Secure [Peripherals]

  Published: November 26, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Ezsecu, Hdds, Peripherals, Touchscreens

  Touchscreens! The make you think of the future, don't they? Either that, or ATM machines from the past decade or so. Either way, this external HDD case from ezSECU features a touchscreen that makes you put in a password before you can retrieve your precious porn and pirated movies collection. Yeah, stick it to the man/your mom! This case only fits

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• iMac 20 and 24-inch Touchscreen Systems

  Published: December 4, 2007, 11:48 am

  Tags: Computers, Apple, Imac, Touchscreens

  20 and 24-inch iMacs with touchscreens. While the new models look almost no different than conventional iMacs, the screens do operate through one of the iMac's external USB ports. But just like when your hands get too frisky at work, it'll cost some money:

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• HTC Loses Title as #1 Non-Touchscreen Windows Mobile Smartphone Maker, Now #3

  Published: January 29, 2008, 6:00 am

  Tags: Phones, Htc, Phones, Smartphones, Touchscreens, Windows Mobile

  of the smartphones with touchscreens, with about a 50% share. Honestly, the touchscreen models are where HTC's focusing most of their efforts anyway, so this isn't that huge of a deal. [Digitimes]

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• Elliptic Touchless UI Puts the Input Interface in Thin Air

  Published: February 3, 2008, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Gadgets, Clips, Elliptic Labs, Gadgets, Input, Touchless, Touchscreens

  Touchscreen interfaces are great, but all that touching, like foreplay, can be a little bit of a drag. Enter the wonder kids from Elliptic Labs, who are hard at work on implementing a touchless interface. The input method is, well, in thin air. The technology detects motion in 3D and requires no special worn-sensors for operation. By simply

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• New RIM Patents Hint at New Blackberry Form Factors, Advanced Multi-Touch Displays [Cellphones]

  Published: February 8, 2008, 11:16 am

  Tags: Blackberry, Cellphones, Multi Touch, Patents, Rim, Touchscreens

  pretty interesting twist on touchscreens, one that one can imagine a multitude of functions for, such as zooming in on a picture when you press down harder on the screen. We'll see which of these, if either, will be appearing on RIM devices in the future. [Unwired View]

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• Apple Patents Show the Advanced Future of Multitouch

  Published: February 19, 2008, 2:59 am

  Tags: Gadgets, Apple, Gadgets, Multitouch, Patents, Touchpads, Touchscreens

  These Apple patents show standard trackpad, basic multitouch and gonzo "Advanced Multitouch" never seen before on shipping products. The advanced UI includes thumb/forefinger/middlefinger combos for saving, closing and opening files, as well as cut, copy and paste. (The patents assume the system can detect the differences between different

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• Gigabyte M700 UMPC Has 2 GB RAM, 7-Inch Touchscreen

  Published: March 5, 2008, 5:45 pm

  Tags: Computers, Cebit 2008, Computers, Gigabyte, Tablets, Touchscreens, Umpcs

  Just unveiled at CeBit, Gigabyte's M700 UMPC comes with a surprising 2 GB RAM. In addition to its hefty memory and bright design, the M700 manages to pack in a 7-inch, 1024x600 touchscreen and a 1.2 GHz processor. It also has Windows Vista Home Premium. Details on pricing and release are hush hush at this point. [Ubergizmo]

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