Articles tagged with: ‘touch screen‘
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India is developing a 35-dollar computer for students
The Indian government unveiled the world’s cheapest “laptop” computer meant for students – a touch-screen device that costs $35. Developed by researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology and Indian Institute of Science, mass production of the computer might begin as soon as next year, claims Human Resource Development Minister… »
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Scribble – create stop motion animations on a drawing pad
A team of Art and Design students at the University of Michigan have created a prototype electronic doodle pad called the Scribble that animates your drawings. The Scribble animation toy grew out of a December focus group in which student designers asked third-graders what they wanted from Santa Claus. You… »
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Microsoft Kin One and Kin Two cell phones
Microsoft Corp. unveiled two cell phones that are meant for social networking. At first, the new touch-screen phones named Kin One and Kin Two will be sold in the U.S. near May, and it will be followed by sales in Italy, Spain, Germany and the U.K sometime in fall this… »
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Transform surfaces into interactive screens with DISPLAX SKIN
DISPLAX Multitouch Technology named SKIN, believed to be the first of its kind, is a transparent thinner-than-paper polymer film enables creation of large interactive screens suitable for outdoors and indoors usage. When applied to glass, plastic or wood, the surface becomes interactive. Significantly, this new multitouch technology can be applied… »
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PURE Sensia – fancy touch screen DAB/WiFi radio player
If you wanted to own a fancy, yet practical, radio player you’ll be pretty happy to read the rest of this article. The PURE Digital Sensia is an eye-catching gadget capable to tune into FM, Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) and Internet stations, and streams MP3s from your PC or some… »
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Virtual Mirror lets you change the clothes prints and colors
As we announced in our previous article we’re going to write about another digital “mirror” that offers us an opportunity to try out different patterns of the clothes you wear. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) have developed a magic mirror that takes the stress out of… »
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CRISTAL system could replace most of your remotes
Instead using a bunch of remote controllers, or extremely complicated universal remote controller, you could try a user interface that attempts to create more natural way of controlling and connecting with devices. CRISTAL (Control of Remotely Interfaced Systems using Touch-based Actions in Living spaces) is a user interface technology used… »
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Change any surface into a touch screen – LBO’s laser projection
In our previous articles we already wrote about tangible interfaces that detect touch and we also wrote about pico projectors. This article is a combination of those two integrated into one. Light Blue Optics (LBO), developer and supplier of laser-based pico projection systems, announced closing of a US$15 million Series… »