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How tough is your touch table?  In an attempt drum up some press about Ideum’s MT-50 Multiouch Table they dropped a 12lb bowling ball from a height of 2 feet onto its surface as well as smash it with 4.6lb hammer.  Result?  No scratches, no dings.  Good marketing if you ask me.  Now try shooting it with a gun, Ideum.

Wacom totally upped the anty today with the intro of the Cintiq 21UX.  Unlike their other tablets, the Cintiq 21UX is a screen, a 21-inch LCD touchscreen to be specific with 2,048 levels of pressure and can sense the slightest nuance of pen pressure, something they’re calling “near-zero”.

Aside from being color accurate and touchscreen, the rear sports a set of Touchstrips that can be user assigned per application to zoom, scroll, adjust brush size and rotate the canvas – I guess multitouch was out of the question.  The screen itself can also adjusted between 10 and 65 degrees and rotated 180 degrees in either direction.  Alternatively, users can remove the 21UX from the stand and work directly on a table or attach it to an articulating swing arm using the VESA certified mounts.

The Cintiq 21UX is expected to ship late March or early April for $1,999.  A mighty high price, but for those working in the field of artistry, architecture or photography it’s a no brainer right off. …Continue reading: Wacom’s Cintiq 21UX Touchscreen Tablet Boasts 2000+ Levels Of Pressure

HP has the HP Photosmart A646 (CC001A) Inkjet Printer for $20 coupon discount.  This little printer has 64mb of memory, a 3.45-inch touchscreen with a touchsmart panel, 5×7-inch borderless printing, Bluetooth connectivity for printing from cell phones, memory card reader and a USB input.

They’ve got it for …Continue reading: HP Photosmart A646 (CC001A) Inkjet Printer – $80 Delivered

The i-Tab is a totally unique and innovative for guitarists of virtually any skill level.  Sitting atop the neck of your guitar like a parrot to the pirate, the i-Tab’s 5-inch color touchscreen feeds you legal tabs, chords, lyrics, and video lessons on the fly.

The i-Tab comes packed with 30 songs and through the USB input you can purchase more to learn at any time.  Using 4Gb’s of internal memory you will also be able to download video lessons, chords, scales, and more.

Included with the i-Tab is a set of headphones, a stylus, a power charger, and a soft carrying pouch.  The i-Tab will go on sale starting in mid-March for the retail price of $200.  Sounds like a quality relationship between musicians and technology. …Continue reading: i-Tab: A Guitar Player’s Best Friend

Buy.com, via Amazon has the Lexmark Interact S605 Wireless 3-in-1 with Web-enabled Touchscreen for $249.99 – $137 instant discount + free shipping = $112.99 shipped!

Features include a Web enabled 4.3-inch touchscreen, 33ppm, 64mb of RAM, built-in WiFi, eco mode, individual ink cartridges and the ability to copy/print/scan from one machine. …Continue reading: Lexmark Interact S605 Wireless 3-in-1 with Web-enabled Touchscreen – $113 Shipped

What will surely be the perfect compliment to the motor home in your life is the STAR-Lady’s Phone.  God awful ugly, heck even fugly doesn’t do this piece of kit justice.  But looks aside, it has a half way decent feature set that includes a 1.8-inch QVGA touchscreen, 2GB of storage, media player, FM radio, a VGA camera and Bluetooth. …Continue reading: Fugly Star Shaped Cell Phone

So far so good for Notion Ink’s Adam tablet computer.  This svelte device, which measures 12.9mm and 11.6mm thick – there are two versions, one with a Pixel Qi 3Qi e-paper screen and the other without (the thinner of the two) – has a 1080p capable touchscreen, will be powered by a Tegra chip and have a battery life that is twice that of the iPad.  Oh yeah, it supports flash, so all those video sites that the iPad can’t, make that won’t access, the Adam can.

Expect the Adam to launch 3rd or 4th quarter of this year.

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I thought the Compaq brand had all but seen the final nail in the coffin.

Today, word has slipped out that HP will launch a 10.1-inch touchscreen computer under the brand called the Airlife 100.  It will include a 10.1-inch touchscreen, a 16GB SDD, 3G connectivity, WiFi, the Android OS platform and be supported by the 1Ghz Snapdragon processor, though that last piece of info is apparently still unconfirmed.  The Airlife’s battery will be good for up to 12 hours of use or up to 10 days of standby, but we all know that’s assuming very unlikely conditions (screen at 30% and one app open).

The Airlife 100 will launch in partnership with Telefonica and be offered at a subsidized rate in Europe and Latin America.

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Toshiba is jumping on the touchscreen bandwagon….again.  That’s right, late last year they announced two touchscreen laptops (they’re actually updated laptops), the U505 and M505.

This time around, though, it’s all new hardware.  The U500-1EX runs Windows 7, has a 13.3-inch 1280×800 touchscreen, 2.13Ghz Intel Core i3-330 processor, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, , 2x USB ports, Bluetooth, 320GB hard drive, DVD burner, WiFi b/g/n, webcam and weighs just over 4.7lbs.

Toshiba says that it will be out sometime soon and cost just over $1,000.

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Beat the crap out of your gadgets much?  Then you might want to take a look at Panasonic’s just announced Toughbook H1 Field.  Yes, it’s another touchscreen computer, a tablet to be exact, but what really makes this thing 3.4lb machine attractive, aside from its ’speak and spell’ form factor (kidding), is the military spec rating of MIL-STD-810 and IP65.  Under the hood is a 1.86Ghz Intel Atom Z540 processor, a 64GB SSD, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, Global 3G connectivity, a 2 megapixel camera, RFID reader, 2GB of RAM and sunlight viewable 10.4-inch XGA touchscreen.

But with toughness comes a cost, $3,379 to be exact when it launches next month. …Continue reading: Panasonic’s Toughbook H1 Field Is Ready To Be Touched And Dropped