Right now you’re stuck with the WebMD for diagnosing your pains on the iPhone, but if you want to skip past the, “It must be cancer diagnosis”, you’ll be glad to know a team is working on turning your phone’s touchscreen into a pocket-sized lab capable of differentiating between the flu, food poisoning and strep throat. The idea won’t [...]
If you wish you could control the color and look of your car as easily as you swap out a new wallpaper on your iPhone, you better start saving up for the new Toyota Concept car that has a gigantic touch screen on the outside of the vehicle. This touchscreen allows you to change your [...]
Ford has updated the MyFord Touch infotainment system for 2013, with a number of performance improvements, and a cleaner interface. Best of all, this update is entirely based on software, so that means all MyFord Touch owners can enjoy the new system in the near future. The MyFord Touch system is an in-dash touch screen [...]
Nippon Electronics unveiled a new glass screen called Invisible Glass that will dramatically reduce reflection and glare when viewed under light. The product’s name shouldn’t be confused with a glass cleaner also by the same name. According to the company, the new Invisible Glass displays will have a new anti-reflective film that coats both sides [...]
Let’s hope this comes to be. Veermata Jijabai a student at the Technological Institute in Mumbai, India is working on an Android App that would allow the visually impaired to type on their device touch screens. BrailleType uses the Braille alphabet, but he’s also working on adding symbols for white space, space, backspace, etc… . [...]
While much of the world celebrated the life of Steve jobs on October 16th, I lost my aunt Rosie. Rosie’s life reminds me why the innovation we as consumers love is so damn important. Rosie had developmental disabilities, but didn’t let that stop her from touching thousands of lives and sharing a desire to use [...]
New details have emerged about the new BlackBerry Colt, the company’s first QNX powered smartphone. Not only will it bring QNX to the phone, but it will also mark the return of a touchscreen only device to the BlackBerry lineup. CrackBerry shared the news today in a post that delivers sa bit more on the [...]
Given that Verizon Wireless had leaked the Blackberry Bold 9930 training video earlier this week, rival Sprint’s version of the Bold flagship phone may not be far behind. It’s unclear if the new BlackBerry Bold 9930 for Sprint will be a 3G CDMA-only model–perhaps with world-phone GSM capabilities for international roaming–or if the device will [...]
Research in Motion may be building itself a quiet ‘Storm’ as it moves its Verizon-branded BlackBerry Storm franchise to a more carrier-agnostic edition of the touchscreen slate BlackBerry Torch 9860 smartphone. The Torch 9860 is most recently seen with an AT&T-branded wallpaper, though AT&T branding isn’t found on the hardware. Given that AT&T has a [...]
Touchscreen keyboards, despite the iPhone’s best-in-class auto-correction and adaptive keys, are still hard to type on, but IBM is hoping to lessen the pain for Blackberry users, who rely on RIM’s excellent thumb keys, to make the switch with a new patent filing for adaptive key controls. IBM’s patent filing with the USPTO reveals a [...]
It’s the 4th of July here in the US and I’m getting ready to head to the great hot, muggy outdoors for the rest of the day. Actually, I’ve been in the great, hot, muggy outdoors most of the morning as I’ve been on my porch enjoying both the morning and playing around with the [...]
Touchscreens aren’t new to cars, but just like on our phones and tablets, the screens are getting larger and the user interfaces are getting better. The new MyFord Touch system is an evolution of the voice controlled SYNC system which we reviewed last summer, adding in a touchscreen and easy access to smartphone apps like [...]
Google had used an un-named smartphone rendering on stage to debut its new search feature for mobile, leading many on the Internet to question if the near-buttonless smartphone is the design inspiration for the oft-rumored next-generation Nexus 3 that will succeed the Samsung-made Nexus S. However, upon closer inspection, the smartphone resembles a smartphone that [...]
Windows 7 enthusiast Justin Campana has put together a wonderful custom interface for a fully touch-optimized environment using a combination of ObjectDock, widgets, themes, and the right applications on his ASUS Eee EP121. Beautiful.
Nokia has revealed that its Symbian^3 Nokia E6 and X7 are now shipping, and both devices will ship pre-loaded with the Symbian software update called Anna, formally known as PR 2.0. Unfortunately, though the news is somewhat bittersweet for early adopters of Nokia’s Symbian^3 products like the Nokia E7, a handset with a landscape-oriented QWERTY [...]
At the Book Expo America conference, Kobo has debuted its new e-book reader, which eschews buttons in favor of a touch experience similar to Barnes & Noble’s announcements today and the latest crop of Sony Reader hardware. The device was announced a day before the Barnes & Noble announcement, and sports a slate form factor [...]
SQUEEGiT is another screen cleaning solution for touch screens and laptops with touch screens from Clean Gear. The company says it is the first in a new category of “portable squeegee cleaning systems” where you don’t just wipe your screen clean with a microfiber cloth but squeegee it like you would your car windows at [...]
Named for its creator and not an old-fashioned hot drink, The Toddy is a simple microfiber cleaning cloth for touch screens and other special surfaces that don’t do well when wiped with typical cloths that could scratch. There isn’t too much to a microfiber cleaning cloth. If it cleans it’s a win and if it doesn’t it’s [...]
The newly announced HTC Sensation smartphone will not only come with a number of new hardware specs, but will also launch with a new software keyboard called HTC Trace. HTC Trace will be competing against Swype to provide users with a different method of entering text on a touchscreen smartphone. Rather than pecking away at [...]
Apple may be the culprit behind Research in Motion‘s delayed launch of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, which is now said to be delayed for up to a month after the April 19th release date. According to a report by DigiTimes, RIM may be having difficulties in securing enough touchscreen displays for the company’s $500 7-inch [...]
The T-Mobile Astound, which is widely believed to the the Nokia C7 model re-badged for the U.S. carrier, will be coming April 6th for a mere $80 on contract. As a more budget-conscious smartphone that features some nice high-end features, the Astound will only be a 3G smartphone and won’t support T-Mobile’s 4G HSPA+ network. [...]
Images for an un-released HTC Ignite have surfaced showing a Windows Phone 7 device that has similar design cues to the HTC Desire HD and the Inspire 4G. The image was provided from Chinese-based website xda.cn and shows a slate-style smartphone with a large touchscreen and three touch buttons on the bottom of the screen [...]
We were at Intel’s booth at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, California where we had noticed a small, portable gaming device from Razer called the Switchblade. According to the company, the Switchblade right now is still an early prototype or concept device, and Razer wouldn’t disclose any formal specs on this diminutive gaming PC other [...]
When it comes to touchscreen all-in-ones, one thing all of us seem to agree on is that they need to be tilt-adjustable. Upright is great for watching video and standard desktop operation, but for extensive touchscreen operation, most people prefer a leaned-back screen. Well, HP’s got that well-covered with their new TouchSmart610 and TouchSmart 9300 [...]
With the rise of the iPhone, many handset-makers have tried to replicate Apple’s success with capacitive touchscreen displays, abandoning old technologies such as resistive touchscreens. While there are advantages and disadvantages to both touchscreen technologies, for now, gesture support, ease and accuracy of tapping, and the ability to use high-end materials, such as Gorilla Glass, [...]
Apple has filed a patent application for developing hover sensing capacitive touchscreens, which could find implementation on iPhones and iPads. Rather than requiring users to actively tap on the screen to register input, Apple’s patent would extend the electrical field outwards so users can hover their fingers over a touchscreen without requiring them to press [...]
The Cowon D3 Plenue is an Android 2.1-powered music player that looks like a phone, but eschews the phone radio to be a portable music player. With a touchscreen, smartphone OS, and a number of high-end features, the device will compete in the same market as Apple’s iPod Touch and Samsung’s Galaxy Player. The device [...]
A projected capacitive touchscreen from Hitachi, previously named as a potential iPhone upgrade, sneaked out on a YouTube video from DigInfo. It demonstrates stylus input and contact through gloves, as well as multi-touch input. However, I don’t peg it as being an option for iPhone.
Apple’s next-generation iPhone could utilize a touchscreen display from Hitachi Displays that will work with gloves and other insulators, meaning non-conductive surfaces, in addition to fingertips. The problem with the current generation iPhone is that it requires finger contact, and won’t work with gloves–for users in colder environments, stylus or pens, and other materials, but [...]
The year was 2010. The eReader wars had heated up to boiling. e-ink devices were deployed by numerous factions, big and small. Everyone expected Amazon to be the one to up the ante, but they weren’t. Barnes & Noble launched first. The war changed that day – everything changed – that day when they went [...]
Our good friend James Kendrick has a run down of two touch interface overlays for Windows 7 tablets, Thinix Touch and Mirabyte FrontFace, both shown off on his TEGA v2. Slick looking interface environments. Very informative video from James. But ultimately, overlays like these only cover up the problems beneath.
While Warner focuses on the OOBE and non-geek perspective on the TEGA v2, I’m going full geek with mine. In this shortcut, I demonstrate what I’ve done with Firefox to make it better suited for a small touchscreen device.
HP’s refreshing the touch interface on its all-in-one PCs. The Touchsmart 600 and the newly minted Toucsmart 310 appear to have a heavily customized version of Thinix running on top of Windows 7. The Touchsmart’s UI is much more fluid and touch applications are no longer required to run in full screen, offering a little [...]
The Tokyo Institute of Technology is working to improve touchscreen input with a range of haptic adapters. The adapters, which can be attaced to your thumb or held like a brush, look pretty straight forward and I wouldn’t be surprised if these went from research to production overnight. In this video, a researcher shows how [...]
Patently Apple has put together an analysis of a patent Apple filed in Europe that describes a system for Macs to convert between their standard configurations and touch-centric configurations. PA believes it will switch automatically between Mac OS X and iOS. I’m not so sure.
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