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1 Weekend DIY: Touchscreen Gloves
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2 Crazy, Awesome, Geeky Computers Spotted at a Live Concert
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3 Retro Radio With Touchscreen Controls
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4 CNN Goes High-Tech For Super Tuesday
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5 Do You Prefer a Physical or a Touchscreen Keyboard?
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6 Fingerless Gloves: The Cold Weather Touchscreen Solution!
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7 Touchscreen Technology May Come to the Kindle
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8 Daily Tech: Samsung Releasing Transparent Laptop
With the rise of smartphone popularity across wireless carriers, it's become pretty difficult to avoid a product with a touchscreen, and as the gadget enthusiasts we are, how could you now do without the swipe and pinch functions? Things get a little tricky come Winter when the heat of our touchscreen conducive fingers are hidden behind knit gloves. You could go out and purchase texting Read more
Samsung plans to release a laptop with a transparent screen — Gizmodo Brain scans let vegetative patients talk to researchers — Switched Turn any room into a home theater — Unplggd Because it's Friday: Star Trek LOLcats — io9 The Gesture Cube blows all other touchscreen devices out of the water — Dvice Read more
This is potentially very exciting: Amazon has purchased a startup company specializing in touchscreen technology. It plans to merge it with the Kindle hardware division, which leads one to believe that maybe the next generation Kindle will have a touchscreen. The company claims its technology can distinguish between a finger and a stylus, as well as support simultaneous touch points (oooh . . . Read more
I'm a big live music fan, as evidenced by my love of websites for finding live music near me and my dislike of tech-related distractions like texting during shows. While at a concert last week, I stood behind the most impressive sound and lighting boards that I have ever seen! The lighting computers on the left were operated with touchscreens. There were at least eight different screens, and Read more
Each week my coats seem to get a little thicker as the temperature drops, and soon it'll be time to bundle up. My pet peeve of the cold weather is trying to press buttons on the iPod and otherwise use my iPhone's touchscreen while keeping my hands warm in gloves. A few Winters ago, I got used to just taking off my gloves when I needed to use the clickwheel (or, I'm not proud to admit, using a Read more
When a new smartphone comes out, one of the first things I look for is whether it has a touchscreen keyboard or a physical keyboard. When T-Mobile's G1 came out, I was mildly surprised that it was physical, rather than onscreen, because I thought it may be closer in design to the iPhone. Not to be outdone, it looks like Android will devise an onscreen keyboard for the G1 as well, leaving you with Read more
Last night when I was watching all of the election coverage on CNN, I couldn't help but notice national correspondent John King tapping a touch-sensitive monitor to show election results across various states. Described as the "Multi-Touch Collaboration Wall" by its inventor, Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel, the multitouch display can to showcase animated maps, videos, photos, live streams of Read more
We certainly expect something like the iPhone to have revolutionary touch capabilities, but what about a retro radio? Bush has just come out with this shiny black DAB digital radio with matching handle which features touch buttons instead of standard push buttons, giving it that perfect mix of vintage and modern tech. The TR04DABBLK, which was displayed on engadget has ten DAB and FM preset Read more
It's not unusual to see a designer smartphone with dumbed-down specs, but the latest entry to the designer gadget lineup seems to be packing both brains and looks. The Android-running Prada Phone by LG is a skinny one (naturally) at 8.5mm thick, and comes packed with a 4.3-inch touchscreen display, a 1.0Ghz dual-core processor for speed, 8GB of onboard storage, and an 8MP rear-facing camera so Read more
Want to add a futuristic edge to one of the more relatively primitive parts of the house? At CES, luxury appliance company Thermador introduced the Freedom Induction Cooktop, which is the first full-surface induction appliance to let you cook on any part of the surface. Position cookware of any size and shape anywhere on the stove, and get started on that complicated Winter soup you usually have Read more
