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Does Everything Need a Touch Screen?

Even coffee makers are making like the iPhone and getting all touch-friendly. Lest we end up in a world of fingerprints and head-colds, it's worth asking: does everything that plugs into the wall need a touch screen? The latest ...READ»

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Plastic Logic Finally Unwraps Its Que E-Reader

Plastic Logic has been in and out of the news for months with its supposed Kindle-killing e-reader, but we really haven't seen much other than prototype tech. That's just changed, as the Que's been given a teaser unveiling. Turns out, ...READ»

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Multi-Touch Interface Concept Blows Away Touchscreens

An intriguing graphic user interface that has all of the benefits of multi-touch, but none of the annoyance of touchscreens.READ»

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Wikipedia Goes All Douglas Adams With Portable E-Reader

Wikipedia's handheld $99 Wikireader takes the encyclopedia mobile, in a sweetly Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy kind of way.READ»

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Can Microsoft Grab Leadership Role With Mouse 2.0 and Other Interface Designs?

The software giant has produced five prototypes for multi-touch mice--and the stakes are high.READ»

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Apple Patent Gives Away iTablet Touch Interface?

Apple's patent applications often reveal tech gems that end up in real devices, which is why a newly-surfaced touchscreen interface patent is gathering some attention. It's for a full-hand touch-sensitive device--basically the ...READ»

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Screw Microsoft's Courier: Apple Had Better Ideas 22 Years Ago

The Web's been buzzing since Gizmodo leaked Microsoft's Courier tablet PC, and rightly so--it looks amazing. However, what we've seen of Courier is a mere concept rendering. Apple, of course, has been playing that game too. For 22 ...READ»

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Apple Tablet Rumor, for the Umpteenth Time--but Now With Details

You're going to keep hearing Apple Tablet rumors until the nice folks at Cupertino actually roll one off the production line, or point-blank rule out such a gizmo...but the latest batch have some very specific specs associated with ...READ»

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LG Plans to Spam the Smartphone Market: 13 Phones Due 2010

LG's smartphone division is planning something a bit special--a press release just unveiled three new Windows-powered phones due very soon. And that's just the tip of the iceberg: ten more are due in 2010. The only phone from the ...READ»

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Nokia Enters the Smartbook Race, Reveals the N900

It's really Nokia's week for new gizmos--first the news of its first netbook, and now it's pulled the veil from the N900, a high-end Linux-powered touchscreen device. It's basically a smartbook--the device that could supersede the ...READ»

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FontPlore: A New Way for Designers to Skim Through Reams of Fonts

A simple, intuitive touch-screen interface rewrites a laborious process. Could it represent the first flickers of a new way for designers to collaborate?READ»

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China Mobile Kickstarts Smartbook Revolution With an Android Machine

So we've heard that the smartbook, a kind of smartphone-netbook hybrid, is on its way, and with such a promising feature set that they'll sell well. And now there's evidence showing that China Mobile is way ahead of the the rest of ...READ»

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LG BL40 Chocolate Phone Video Gives Us Widescreen Envy

Last week some bloggers dug out the secret of LG's upcoming Chocolate smartphone--a cinema-aspect widescreen. It sounds amazing, but little else was known about it. Until this video leaked. And boy it's impressive. Now we know the ...READ»

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Will Plastic Logic's E-Reader Knock the Kindle Off Its Pedestal?

Despite our rumor-based hopes, Kindle DX turned out to be just a big Kindle 2, giving Plastic Logic plenty of room to maneuver to the top of the big e-readers list. More details have surfaced about this product, and it's plenty ...READ»

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BlackBerry Storm 2 Photos Leak: Much the Same as Original?

Just a week or so after RIM's CEO confirmed that the company is working on a successor to its BlackBerry Storm, several images of the phone have leaked. It looks complete, one might say almost ready for launch, and borrows heavily ...READ»

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Could Rumored "PSP Go" Save Sony's Tiny Games Machine?

Sony's PlayStation Portable has had a few tweaks and adjustments throughout its life, and if we can trust a new rumor, then it's about to undergo a radical design overhaul. If it ditches the proprietary UMD drive, as is speculated, ...READ»

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Philips' Prestigo Touchscreen Universal Remote Gets an Upgrade

Beautifully designed, highly functional and easy to set-up, Philips' Prestigo remote rivals top-of-the-line models with similar features but costs significantly less. The latest model, the STR9320 (still yet to hit the market), ...READ»

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Meet Sphere: Transforming Touchscreen Motion-Sensing Mouse of the Future

Despite all of its various reinventions the basic design of the mouse hasn't changed very much--it's still the same old pointing device we know and love. But Moixa's newly patented Sphere is such a radical rethink, melding mouse and ...READ»

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Microsoft Multitouch Video Demos Windows 7's Irrelevance

Microsoft's demonstrations of the touch-response goodness built into the upcoming Windows 7 operating system are "cool." But it's made me realize something else too: Windows 7 is irrelevant. First, check out the video ...READ»

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Apple's Latest Patent: An In-Car iPhone GPS Hybrid?

The next iPhone could be the center of a sophisticated in-car navigation system, if a recently revealed Apple patent is taken to logical extremes. We've mentioned Apple's extensive patenting of GPS technology before, but that's ...READ»

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Samsung's $300 Papyrus Confirms E-Books as the Next Lifestyle Gadget

When Samsung joins the e-book fray, where Amazon, Sony and Fujtisu are already playing, it confirms one thing: the e-reader is becoming the next "must-have" lifestyle gadget. The Papyrus, a touchscreen e-reader that ...READ»

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Microsoft's Surface 2.0-aka SecondLight-Due in Two Years

Microsoft's Surface has always been a slightly baffling product: It's a real multi-touch large-screen PC with almost sci-fi levels of cleverness, but costs a whopping $10,000, so it's out of most people's reach. But clearly ...READ»

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Samsung Shows One Future For Touchscreen Cellphones: Alphabet Gestures

Samsung has knocked out cellphones like there's no tomorrow recently--and its latest pair of touchscreen smart phones come with a novel feature--programmable gestures. Programmable gestures, like those used with graphics pads and on ...READ»

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Samsung's Q1EX-71G Is a Taste Of What an Apple Tablet Might Be

Samsung just pulled the wrappers off an intriguing little machine: The enigmatically-named Q1EX-71G is actually a mini netbook PC that shuns both the traditional clamshell design and processor family that you'll find inside nearly ...READ»

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Asus Dual-Screen Laptop is Half iPhone, Half Modded Mac From Yesteryear

Asus has just shown off a concept PC that's an inevitable development of multi-touch touchscreen technology: A dual-screen clamshell netbook machine. It's glossy, it's smart, and it makes some sort of sense. But the truth is, it's ...READ»

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