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Reverting To Type: Microsoft Gets The Tablet Keyboard All Backwards

What's the iPad's greatest weakness? Its keyboard. Now Microsoft says it has a better idea for tablet computers: put the keys on the back.READ»

Fingers Tired? Try the iPed

Anyone who thinks that the iPad is a little on the small side might like this project from students at Potsdam's Hasso Plattner Institute in Germany. Multitoe is a touchscreen interface for floors that can tell different users apart ...READ»

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iPad First Look: The Keyboard

In most cases the iPad acts like a blown up version of an iPod Touch. For one function in particular, the software-based multitouch keyboard, this offers a dramatic improvement in usability.READ»

Apple's Own iPad Peripherals Delayed 'Til May

Before we learned its launch date, we heard scurrilous rumors Apple's iPad was facing delays in its launch schedule. Now we discover that some of the very peripherals Apple itself was toting for the iPad are delayed until May. What ...READ»

Online Project Billing Software is Popular in Virtual Offices

Preparing a project billing statement for a client is the point in a project’s process where goals and objectives meet, and project billing and invoicing are the benchmarks where weaknesses in a project are often fully revealed. ...READ»

Meet the Multitouch Interface of the Future

The advantages of user interfaces such as that of the iPhone may be moving to the desktop PC and the standard keyboard.READ»

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Connecting With Computers Through Mud

Tom Gerhardt's mud computer, one of the projects on display at NYU's ITP spring show 2009, is a keyboard replacement made entirely of the squishy stuff. According to Gerhardt, the Mud Tub pioneers a "new open-ended interaction ...READ»

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Asus' Eee Keyboard: The Tiny Media PC You've Been Waiting For?

One oddity that popped up at CES last week was the Asus Eee Keyboard--it's basically an entire functioning PC with a 5-inch touchscreen display crammed into not much more space than a conventional dumb QWERTY unit. And now that ...READ»

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Tech Gear of the Year

Smartphones, flat-screens, robots, green tech: We wade through it all to ID the coolest innovations, including Sony's absurdly svelte, impressively vibrant XEL01 TV screen and the newly customizable Flip Mino video camera.READ»

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Logitech Announces Ultra-Thin Keyboard

For those of us who are in love with ultra-thin electronics, Logitech [NASDAQ:LOGI] has heeded our call. It's releasing three keyboards this week, one of which is only 9.3mm thick. Priced at $80 and set to come to market in October, ...READ»