Tag Archives: touchscreen

Touchscreen fan controller for PCs

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Rob Beschizza

NXZT’s Sentry 2 Touchscreen Fan Controller is, presumably, what you’ve been waiting for if you hate buttons but still want to control your fans. But the best part is that it is isn’t an LCD: it’s “touchscreen” in the sense … Continue reading →

iHouse SmartFaucet perhaps a little too much so

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Joel Johnson

Shopping for fixtures would tend to suggest finding a tasteful item—let’s say a faucet—that will provide trouble-free service for years to come. Or you could buy the “SmartFaucet” from Brazilian manufacturer iHouse, which users a facial recognition system to provide … Continue reading →

Dual touchscreen laptop concept suddenly attractive when you add World of Warcraft

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Joel Johnson

On the Intel/Asus-sponsed WePC.com, Destructoid‘s Niero Gonzalez had the same thought about dual touchscreen laptops that many of us have, but has made it oh-so-much-more compelling with a mockup of playing World of Warcraft on such a machine. I’m writing … Continue reading →

Impress, a smooshy 3D touchscreen by Silke Hilsing

Posted on February 13, 2009 by Joel Johnson

I’m having a little bit of difficulty parsing the art-speak, but I’m pretty sure from the pictures that “DIS.PLAY” is a prototype projection surface that responds to not only touch in two dimensions, but smooshed down into a third. Oh, … Continue reading →

Fujitsu LifeBook N7010 crams two screens in

Posted on November 4, 2008 by John Brownlee

Besides the useless and strangely hobbit sized U820, the other Fujitsu Lifebook of the day is the N7010, which has one rather neat flourish distinguishing it from your average laptop: there’s a tiny 4-inch touchscreen embedded above the keyboard. Fujitsu’s … Continue reading →

Asus promises touchscreen Eee in 2009

Posted on October 9, 2008 by John Brownlee

The next obvious step is the tablet netbook. Tablets have never really hit the mainstream at their price, but a cheap netbook tablet could be marketed as an affordable, digital Etch-A-Sketch, useful not just for idle MS Painting but also … Continue reading →

Sony’s new Reader has a touchscreen

Posted on October 3, 2008 by John Brownlee

Sony’s latest e-reader. the PRS-700, looks good: it features a six-inch touchscreen, allowing you to look up words, tag bookmarks and turn pages with the press of a finger. Built into the sides: a series of LED lights for reading … Continue reading →

The Shuttle-D10: a desktop with a built-in touchscreen

Posted on September 18, 2008 by John Brownlee

Crunchgear’s Doug Aamoth is ambivalent about desktops with built-in touchscreens: he doesn’t really see the point in PCs like the Shuttle D10. But I can’t be the only one who sees a built-in touchscreen as incredibly convenient for a home … Continue reading →

Dual Touchscreen Nintendo DS in 2009?

Posted on August 27, 2008 by John Brownlee

My former Kotaku colleague Brian ‘LOL’ Ashcraft has plied mysterious “sources” in Japan with sake, reducing them to salaryman-style drunkenness. Plucked from their chaotic drunken ramblings? Some details about the next iteration of the Nintendo DS. According to Ashcraft, several … Continue reading →

Does MacBook’s rumored glass trackpad mean secondary displays?

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Rob Beschizza

If the new MacBook Pro’s touchpad will be glass and multitouch, there is an implication of it having a display underneath it, because the current metal touchpads already do multitouch. Here’s a photoshop cooked up by 4 Front Multimedia: Moreoever, … Continue reading →