The Dual Touschreen Laptop, or more officially known as the Prezenter PSR, isn’t intended for the general public. No, it’s designed for harassing the working stiffs. Ok, maybe that’s an exaggeration, but this dual touchscreen computer is designed to facilitate on the move sales folks who don’t have the luxury of using a projector. The smaller screen faces the presenter, while the larger 14.1-inch display faces the client. The presenter can control the presentation all from the 7-inch small screen, and if need be the customer can interact with the larger screen by drawing circles around things they have questions about. It sports a WiFi, and a 1.3 megapixel camera on the bezel of the 14-inch side. Heck, you could very well record the customers facial reactions and later study them to tweak the presentation (I’d like to think the camera could perform ‘eye tracking’, but I don’t think the tech exists in such a small format). No word on its weight - I bet it’s hefty - and it rocks an AMD Geode LX800 processor, 512MB of RAM, and an 80GB hard drive.
Price and an additional pic after the ‘leap’
The Prezenter PSR is currently being tested in Europe and the US and has a tentative price tag of $1,800.
TGDaily got a hands on with a 22-inch multitouch display from motherboard and graphics maker Albatron (never heard of them). I wish there was more to tell, but in short TG said the display worked without a hitch and from what I could infer it sounds like were not too far off from a Minority Report like interface (if you haven’t seen the move…see it).
Where do people find the time? Invented by a UK student (Scott Hobbs), the dual touchscreen turntables allows you to do a wide variety of cool ass things. Based on the video it looks like he’s integrated a drum machine into the tables and the touchscreen surface shows the waveform of the music currently playing. Think ‘chaos machine’ meets record player.
Verizon has begun selling the Samsung Glyde (originally announced here). It’s available directly from Verizon’s online shop for $199.99 with a 2 year contract. The Glyde, unlike the LG Voyager, offers “True Internet” browsing, V Cast, GPS navigation and a slide out full QWERTY keyboard; there’s also the touch screen as well.
I don’t see how this is any different than the Microsoft Surface (the table), but as always, we all enjoy a little touch screen interaction, especially if it’s intuitive. Could be cool for presenting to huge groups.
Update: Ok, so it uses 3 lasers placed at the bottom that create a mesh across the screen which are monitored by a camera behind the screen. When you touch the screen it breaks the mesh and the software computes the interaction accordingly.
HTC announced their newest phone today, the Touch Diamond. It of course has some iPhone similarities, such as the coverflow option and an integrated YouTube function. The weather widget (if you wanna to call it that) looks pretty neat, and features a wind shield wiper across the screen to indicate rain. Also included is GPS, HSDPA and WiFi - the first time they’ve all been included in a mobile handset!
The HTC Touch Diamond will be available in Europe (on Orange) starting June 2008, and will hit Asia and the Middle East later this quarter. US shores should expect the phone the second half of 2008, with no official date announced. No word on pricing.
Complete Specs:
Size: 102 x 51 x 11.33mm
Weight: 110 g
Connectivity: WCDMA / HSDPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps and HSUPA
Operating system: Windows Mobile® 6.1 Professional
It looks like AT&T will be among one of the first to feature Microsoft’s Surface, an interactive touch screen table, in a retail environment. Customers will be able to place handsets on the Surface and through the magic of Bluetooth communication be able to review the handsets feature sets and options, in addition to coverage areas and making custom modifications to their handset. The first Surfaces will appears in major cities such as NYC, Atlanta, San Antonio and SF. Expect Microsoft’s Surface to appear in AT&T stores sometime this month (April 08).
The DigitalRist D-RiseTM m600i is quite simply out of control. Not only is it unlocked for use with any SIM card, but it rocks a touchscreen, a 1.3 megapixel camera, mp3 player, voice recorder, Bluetooth, expandable from 60mb to 512mb flash memory, and more. What, no GPS? The only draw back: it only works in Europe and Australia. Price: $320 (350AU)
At first glance the demo appears to be nothing special. But once the demo get’s into the ordering part, and you realize that the Surface is the actual table you’ll be sitting at, it’s pretty damn cool. Just watch the video already!
The genesis of saving money isn’t a complicated one: get piggy bank, grow up, open bank account. But in today’s digital world that just doesn’t seem fitting. Zillion’s ‘Touch Screen ATM’ gives all the money lessons your kid will ever need to become the next big time banker Mommy and Daddy always dreamt of. This little digital piggy holds up to $999.99 and accepts real coins and bills - although I am not sure how much actual, physical money it can hold. Kids can make deposits, withdrawals and check balances by interacting with its touchscreen by finger or included stylus. To insure that your child understands the value of a bank account, a checkcard and PIN are required to access the cold hard cash.
Ordering at any restaurant never seems to be a simple task, especially if you have a half witted high school kid manning your table. The Teroka Deli Touch Pen might change all that. The pen is simply touched to a picture that reads the embedded barcode, and the order is received. I don’t know what happens if you touch the wrong item, but perhaps their is some sort of confirmation process. 45,000 Yen a month (yes, Japan only right now) or about $420/month and includes 30 pens. Cheaper then a touch screen system and half as fragile. I wonder if they include some sort of tethering device for the pens?
Beating the crap out of your equipment with no regret is always an interesting proposition. Last week it was the Sonim XP1 cell phone that could take a 9mm bullet. This week it’s the Duros 8” Rugged Tablet PC. Rated military grade (MIL STD 810F) the Duros can survive significant shock, dust, water, and freezing or heat blistering temperatures. It rocks a 8.4” sunlight viewable SVGA touchscreen LCD, an AMD Geode™ LX 800 Processor or Intel Celeron M 1.0 GHz, up to 1GB of memory, and a 120 GB hard drive, or an optional 64GB SSD drive. Its feature set includes, GPS, WiFi, EDGE, Bluetooth, GRPS, and UMTS makeing this touchscreen tablet a true wireless wonder ‘puter. Weighs 4.8lbs and it won’t slip into a manila envelope at 1.7” thick.
What’s cooler than a Vespa with a Louis Vuitton seat? A Vespa with a Louis Vuitton seat and a touch screen LCD runing Windows XP of course! This red showboat of glory won the “Best Modern Vespa award” at the Amerivespa contest.
According to News.com, we might see a consumer level Microsoft Surface sooner then later. If you recall, the touch screen tables were announced last year to a lot of hype. In my opinion, that’s just what they are. Come on! We were just scratching the surface (pun intended) with touch screens back then. Now that we’ve got the iPhone and a barrage of other touch screen devices, is it really that impressive that someone has jammed a computer and some touchpoints onto a screen, and boxed and wrapped it in a 70s esque video game table (remember when you’d stare down at Pacman). Anyway, the consumer, or home Surface wasn’t due for another 5 years. Now Steve Ballmer wants to speed that up, but we still don’t know an exact date for release. Currently, Microsoft still has to deliver the promised Surfaces to hotels, casino, etc, which they’re behind on.
I snagged this from the guys at Phonearena. The new HTC Touch looks pretty promising with a sexy form factor and a supposedly intuitive touch screen control (we all know how these can go). It runs Windows Mobile 6 and includes a slide out keypad with a few additional hard buttons such as instant email and Windows access.
4.2 x 2.2 x .6 inches
4.2 oz
5 hour talk time
180 hour standby time
65k color screen at 2.6″
Includes styles and handwriting recognition
2 megapixel camera
MicroSD
I guess you can get a 20 key QWERTY keyboard (it’s optional)
LG will show off its recently unveiled KS20 at IFA 2007 (Europe’s largest Consumer Electronics show), which begins this Friday, August 31st. It’s slim at 12.8mm thick and features a 2.8″ touch screen display. It runs on Window Mobile 6, can rock the HSDPA (3g high speed Internet) unlike the iPhone and sports a 2MP camera. Will it be an iPhone killer? I doubt it. The touch screen, based on the pic and operating system, is probably more equatable to Palm’s Treo’s minus the tactile keyboard. The LG-KS20 is set to hit the European market Q4 2007 with no word on the price tag.
My advice: Hold out for the 32GB iPhone. Course, Apple didn’t include some slutty ‘barely legal’ chicks to show it off…
If you’ve seen Speilberg’s Minority Report then you probably already know what we’re talking about. At TED 2006 (Technology Entertainment Design Conference) in Monterey, CA Jeff Han showed off what looks like the most amazing, to date of course, touch screen technology. Using one hand or two, the presenter seamlessly navigated his way through photographs, maps and more. At times he used two hands and it seemed to create an axis for the other hand to work off of. You gotta watch the video here. Eat your heart out Apple (iPhone).
currently playing. Think ‘chaos machine’ meets record player.
