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A Slim New Crop of Touchscreen Sony Readers Arrive in Town [EReaders]

By Lindsay R.
A Slim New Crop of Touchscreen Sony Readers Arrive in Town [EReaders]

And lo, the slim and cheap Sony Readers we heard about have arrived , and only the flagship Daily Edition dons a 3G and Wi-Fi coat. All models have new Pearl e-ink displays, 2GB of memory-and touchscreens. Those Pearl e-ink displays boast of ...

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Archos Fires Scattershot of Android Touchscreen Devices [Tablets]

By Lindsay R.
Archos Fires Scattershot of Android Touchscreen Devices [Tablets]

In place of competing against the iPad with a single, carefully-crafted tablet, Archos is hoping one of its five new mobile devices will entice someone. The line ranges from 2.8" to 10.1" , though the smaller devices aren't much competition. The Archos 28 and 32 ($100 and $150 respectively) seem more like overpowered ...

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HTC’s Tablet Can have Same Touchscreen Tech as Microsoft Surface [Tablets]

By Lindsay R.
HTCs Tablet Can have Same Touchscreen Tech as Microsoft Surface [Tablets]

What would you adore to work out in a HTC tablet? Something running Android? Chrome OS? A touchscreen built by N-Trig, a similar guys who were behind the Microsoft Surface? In line with Haaretz.com, HTC has employed the services of Israeli manufacturer N-trig for its tablet's touchscreen tech-the very same touchscreen that was used in Microsoft's ...

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Nokia X3-02 Touch and kind puts a touchscreen to your Series 40 featurephone

By Dan A.
Nokia X3-02 Touch and kind puts a touchscreen to your Series 40 featurephone

Nokia has just revealed its X3-02 handset, which does the unthinkable and marries a relatively standard 16-button keypad with a 2.4-inch QVGA touchscreen. Now, we would have our reservations about Nokia's S40 OS with the ability to translate to a little-friendly UI, but the great thing about this phone is that touch comes as essentially ...

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Shocker: Touchscreen smudge may give away your Android password pattern

By Dan A.
Shocker: Touchscreen smudge may give away your Android password pattern

Fast food connoisseurs should pay special attention here -- consistent with a up to date paper by the University of Pennsylvania, Android users are inadvertently leaving their nine-dot lock patterns inside the open, courtesy of their fingers' oily smear on the screen. Specifically, the study on potential " smudge attacks" found that partial or ...

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Japan takes vending machines to their logical, 47-inch touchscreen extreme

By Dan A.
Japan takes vending machines to their logical, 47-inch touchscreen extreme

Time for us to admit another entrant into the hall of unnecessary, but cool inventions. Installed at Tokyo\'s Shinagawa Station yesterday, this latest spin on the vending machine dispenses with those silly windows unto what you\'re buying and furnishes its user with a 47-inch touch panel from which to make his (or her) selection. An ...

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Touchscreen Vending Machines Have No Soul [Foods]

By Lindsay R.
Touchscreen Vending Machines Have No Soul [Foods]

The touchscreen has given modern computing numerous its feeling and spirit. The touchscreen doesn't belong in vending machines. Fake food and real samples, tantalizingly top-lit and warmed in an incandescent bath, are what stokes my stomach. This vending machine, was spotted by friends at core77 in Tokyo. Rather than the classic rows of tangible bottles behind ...

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Control4 Brings Low-Priced Touchscreen Home Automation For Your Walls [Home Automation]

By Lindsay R.
Control4 Brings Low-Priced Touchscreen Home Automation For Your Walls [Home Automation]

Control4, one of the most lower-priced home automation solutions, already has apps in your iPhone, Android, iPad and laptops to manipulate your own home, so why do they wish a touchscreen for the wall? Because it\'s always on. Those cellphone and web-based solutions are fine, but you run into the problem of having to open up ...

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HP rolls out Mini 5103 business netbook with optional touchscreen, SSD

By Dan A.
HP rolls out Mini 5103 business netbook with optional touchscreen, SSD

HP\'s quietly busted out the successor to the Mini 5102 -- the Mini 5103 -- on its Italian website. This business-oriented 10.1-incher boasts options galore, including a choice of Atom N455 or N475 CPUs, an up to 320GB HDD or an up to 128GB SSDan optional touchscreen display, optional Broadcom Crystal HD video accelerator, and ...

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DIY Graphing Calculator is Touchscreen Nerd Excalibur [Calculator]

By Dan A.
DIY Graphing Calculator is Touchscreen Nerd Excalibur [Calculator]

Who needs Texas Instruments? Not Matt Stack, creator of the Open SciCal. His homemade, 100% open source graphing calculator not only blows away the functionality of store-bought devices, but is the \" ultimate status symbol a number of the nerdiest of the nerds.\" When I was in high school, stolen TI-83s were a pervasive trade, ...

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