Interesting report from New Scientist: Researcher from Microsoft and UC Berkeley are developing a touch computing system that can digitize physical objects placed on its surface and, more impressively, do the reverse, project digital objects on to physical ones. It is similar to Microsoft Surface but with visual recognition of and interaction with physical objects. [...]
The following is a guest editorial by Rob Bushway, the founder and former owner of GottaBeMobile.com. I twittered the following tonight, and as a result, raised a few eyebrows: The fact that Kindle for PC doesn’t support the pen should be an utter embarrassment to Microsoft Before I share my reasons for that statement, let [...]
The more I think about it, the more pen input on a eReader makes sense. They’re supposed to function like real books. Pens and pencils are used to mark up real books. Ergo, eReaders should have pen input. Clearly the folks at Endless Ideas agree with that logic, as demonstrated by the BeBook Neo, their [...]
Wanted to try the new webOS from Palm but weren’t on Sprint? Well, now you can try this on the Verizon Wireless network. From January 25 until February 14 (just in time for Valentines Day),Verizon Wireless is offering the Palm Pre Plus for $149.99 and the Palm Pixi Plus for $99,99, after at $100 mail-in [...]
Brad Linder of Liliputing has reviewed the Asus Eee PC 1005PE Netbook, the first Pine Trail Netbook on the market, and I think my theory about the evolution of Netbooks is about to be confirmed. Brad flat out says that if you own one of the earlier siblings, battery life is about the only real [...]
The Mobile World Congress show in Spain is coming up in less than a month, and already there are “leaks” about what announcements will take place there. The big one? Announcements from Microsoft pertaining to their Windows Mobile platform. We already know that at MWC 2010, Microsoft will be announcing Windows Mobile 6.6, but there [...]
Thinker and obvious gadget enthusiast Phil Gyford decided to pit four of the handheld devices he’s collected over the years against one another in a test of their text input capabilities. As his controls, he also tested his time on his Macbook keyboard and plain old pen and paper, all with a 221 word passage [...]
At his Carrypad blog, Chippy has, and I think this term is spot-on, dumped everything he thinks about tablet design in a post complete with diagrams and lengthy bullet point list, entitled “Things to Consider when Designing or Buying a Tablet-style device.” Despite the size of his post, he’s quick to point out it’s by [...]
This is the last weekend before the Apple Tablet is announced and with the expectations and speculation ramped up to almost impossible to achieve new heights I’ve enjoyed the craziness, the silliness, the real and the off-base reporting, and well, the entire circus. I hope you have too, because I’m guessing it will be some [...]
When life keeps throwing things your way, you have two choices: deal with it or give in. Giving in isn’t in my or my wife’s nature, so we work through what hits us as best we can. This week our family helped get my mother set up in a skilled care facility as she continues [...]
Am I the only person in America who thinks wireless carrier’s plans are purposely difficult to understand and too costly? Data plan caps, tethering, ETFs and a lot of other lingo often prevent folks from considering phones with data plans. I wasn’t surprised during a recent visit to Best Buy when I examined wireless carrier’s [...]
Not sure what it is, but seeing electronics smashed, dropped, and blown up is just plain cool. Case in point is the OLPC XO laptop featured in this video from OLPCNews.com. The OLPC buzz has been slow lately and the organization appears to be weakening from within, but the little laptop shows that it can [...]
Over the past week, I’ve been working behind the scenes with various representatives from Dell regarding the well-publicized issues of the Latitude XT. I just finished a conference call with them with regards to where things stand, and they wanted to communicate the following to everyone: Dell is aware of the complaints concerning the Latitude [...]
Evernote 3.5 for Windows is out of beta testing and ready for real-world use according to the Evernote Blogcast. I had jumped on the beta boat early on and was really impressed with the new interface. Ink notes, while still open to improvement and enhancement, are much easier to launch. The thumbnails and side window [...]
Its time for a YouTube news round up from around the Internet: YouTube launches the YouTube Music Discovery Project: You know when you go on YouTube and you are trying to search for your favorite music video or just music and it just doesnt work right? You find everything you don’t want. Well, Google wanted [...]
The GPS stand alone device market keeps getting rocked. First Google announced its new Turn-by-Turn maps feature and the end of last year for its Android platform. Stocks for stand alone GPS makers took a tumble. Now Nokia is announcing that its Turn-by-Turn Ovi Maps will be free forever on its platform. In addition to [...]
According to Techcrunch, Amazon is offering a promotion to select customers that allows them to purchase a Kindle, decide they don’t like it, get their money back, and keep the Kindle and a case. Sound too good to be true? It is a limited promotion in both numbers and time (5 days) and again, it [...]
What’s in a name? Legal fees. Apparently Apple is not just trying to corner the market on Tablets, publishing, music, movies, TV, sharing, and weaken Google’s search dominance, but it is also looking to corner the trademark market on anything that could possibly used as a moniker for its mythic Tablet. Apple has been granted [...]
Amazon is making some moves in what looks like a play to stay ahead of the game before Apple releases its Tablet, that is assumed as a magnet for the publishing industry to try and save its woes. Amazon just yesterday announced a new royalty structure for authors, giving them a larger piece of the [...]
The official leak and rumor source of Apple, The Wall St. Journal, is running with a bunch of things that the mythic Apple Tablet will offer when it changes the world next week. Some of the news (virtual keyboard in a slate form factor) isn’t really news as it’s what’s been expected. What may be [...]
Hmmm… BumpTop, a touch and gesture based interface for working with your computer files, formerly for Windows only, has been released for Mac. Seems to work great via the multi-touch trackpad, as seen in the video demo (after the jump), but I must assume they’re also hoping to get some touchscreen love on an Apple [...]
The last time we saw Stantum’s pressure sensitive multi-touch technology in action it was in a rough prototype caught on video by Engadget. This time, Engadget has been given hands-on time with a more polished device, a slate tablet built out of a Dell Mini 10. Very impressive technology. Lot of good demo software loaded [...]
It’s done. Our forum members, led by CajunAzn, Steve Seto and moderator Sharon, have assembled the definitive list of issues with the N-Trig digitizer, particularly the one in the Dell Latitude XT, as part of what is being called the N-Trig Initiative. The entire statement is posted below (most of it after the jump), and [...]
I’ve been tracking the news out of Haiti quite closely. There are many heartbreaking stories, but every once in a while there’s one that puts a smile on my face. The TODAY Show interviewed Dan Woolley, a filmmaker from Colorado that used his DSLR and iPhone to survive for over 65 hours until he was [...]
I’m very pleased to announce that the GottaBeMobile forums are back in order. Thank you very much to all of our forum members who’ve been patient over the past month or so as we’ve struggled with some technical issues. The new, improved forums are not quite perfect, but we feel they’re in good enough shape [...]
WIPTE, the Workshop on the Impact of Pen-based Technology on Education, has announced the winner of their video contest looking for the best example that delivers that “impact”. That winner is Carol Carruthers from Seneca College in Canada, who showed off students using Tablet PCs to learn and practice mathematics as part of their HP [...]
Cyril Pavillard just sent over a link to Uniboard, an interactive whiteboard application built for Tablet PC users. From the looks of his video demo, this applilcation is incredibly simple to use and I hope to give it a spin. You can import documents such as Powerpoint and PDF files and annotate them during your [...]
The dual-screen eReader/tablet enTourage eDGe appears to be headed in a more business-oriented direction with the addition of DataViz Documents To Go to its included software. The enTourage eDGe merges an e-paper and LCD screen to create a dual-screen device that combines the functionality of an e-reader, tablet netbook, notepad and audio/video recorder and player [...]
Google is once again showing that they aren’t evil and truly want to help out the people of Haiti. Google Voice is offering free phone calls to Haiti for the next two weeks: To help those families, we’re offering free calling to Haiti through Google Voice for the next two weeks. To place a call [...]
Just when you thought your iPhone/iPod Touch was safe from our government.. The White House has announced on their official blog that they have created an official iPhone/iPod Touch application called “The White House” app. With this application, our fellow Americans can see all the latest news items, photos, blog posts and other informational tidbits [...]
I guess things aren’t all that rosy between Apple and Google (as if other things didn’t already make that apparent.) Rumor is (note: rumor) that Apple is in talks with Microsoft to replace Google’s search on the iPhone with Bing as the default. The way things are going between some of the big players these [...]
HP Home is offering the HP Pavilion dv4i notebook with new Intel Core i5 processor for $669 after instant savings and a stackable web coupon; including free shipping. The Pavilion dv4i also includes 3 GB RAM, 250 GB hard drive and various other upgrades. Visit LogicBuy for more information and coupon code.
In news I should have caught earlier but missed because I’m still running a previous beta that doesn’t get upgrades, ritePen 3.5 now has support for 64-bit Windows 7 and Vista. ritePen 3.5.25 Upgrade supports 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Vista, includes multiple improvements in full-screen markup and clipping, and adds error reporting system [...]
WMExperts has a big rundown on all the goodies planned for Windows Mobile 7, including that it might be called simply “Seven.” I’m not sure if that’s something they heard, or if the Experts are just using that as a placeholder, but as one commenter on jkOnTheRun has already pointed out, it’s not a great [...]
Boy Genius Report is reporting some leaked information from one of their sources about the next iPhone OS. There will be multi-touch gestures OS-wide. (Would make sense for that as the rumored OS for the iTablet is close if not the same as the iPhone) “A few new ways” to run applications in the background [...]
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Droid RAZR MAXX First Impressions and Unboxing Video
The Droid RAZR is just months old, but Motorola has already seen fit to introduce another mmber to the RAZR family, the Droid RAZR MAXX. The Droid RAZR (review) was known for a super thin design and Kevlar back, but it lacked in the battery life department. We saw 11-12 hours of battery life in [...]
The Next Nexus: What It Needs to Stay Ahead of the Pack
Late last year, Google and Samsung released the third rendition of the Nexus smartphone. The first of course was the HTC-made Nexus One which arrived in 2010 to great fan fare. Then, in late part of 2010, the Samsung-made Nexus S launched which eventually became available in two variants, the regular Nexus S and the [...]
Nokia Responds to Alleged 3-Inch ‘Tablet’ Leaks
When Nokia took the stage in New York City with carrier partner T-Mobile USA, various news outlets were reporting that Nokia was either working on a 3-inch tablet or media player. Right now, the company says that the information that was reported earlier was all a misunderstanding by various hopeful blogs. The device that was [...]
Pad & Quill Octavo iPad Case 2 Looks Great but is Bulky
The Pad & Quill Octavo case for the iPad 2 is a leather bound case that looks great on the iPad 2. This case is crafted with care and you can tell that when you pick it up. Pad & Quill is known for producing high quality cases that protect your tablet, computer or iPhone with [...]
Pad & Quill Fire Keeper: A Beautiful Kindle Fire Case
If you have a Kindle Fire, then you owe it to yourself to take a look at the beautiful Kindle Fire Keeper, a case from Pad & Quill. Pad & Quill cases protect your iPad, eBook reader, computer or iPhone with a touch of class giving users a classic book-like experience even though they’re holding a very [...]
id America Gasket iPhone Case Review
iPhone cases are a dime a dozen, but now and then I see one that stands out. Enter the Gasket iPhone case from id America. The id America Gasket case is a brushed aluminum iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S case that looks absolutely stunning. The machined case is inspired by the head gasket you’d find inside a [...]
