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It's clear that touch interfaces are slowly taking over consumer's preferences, but big touchscreens are still a rare thing (and expensive altogether), plus it takes years to change every gadget in your house to a new one, that is till now, as Nokia showcased its Plug and Touch technology on a Nokia N8. The technology woks simply like this: you plug your HDMI cable into the N8 and a display of your choice, launch the Push and Touch program and that's it, the 12 megapixel camera records where you...

After playing with the Dell Streak at the official launch in my country it's time to take a deeper look at the 5 inch tablet by looking at a few videos that give you an idea about how it feels in hand and in pockets, how you can choose a better keyboard and how you can read books, install new books and the Kindle app for Android.I've done those videos together with my friend Mike after receiving the Dell Streak tablet. We're going to keep the sample for a few days so if you feel like needing...

Now that the Library of Congress make Jailbreaking legal in US, there's nothing stopping people unlock the full potential of their Apple iPads/iPhones or iPods, plus it's legal for you to host the programs that do just that. JailBreakMe is the latest tool that's even easier to use the previous versions thanks to the fact that is web browser based, so all you have to do is point the Safari browser inside your device to this URL: http://jailbreakme.com and follow the instructions.Unfortunately...

There's no question about it: if you're an artist and need a drawing tablet go for one of those external Wacom things that have active digitizers, thus offering the precision you need to build up your sketches. But what can you do if you don't have thousands of dollars to throw out the windows? Well, you can consider trying to use a netvertible like the ASUS T101MT to draw directly on the screen. It might prove more intuitive, plus it's cheaper, considering tablets like the T101MT sell for just ...

We know a lot about the iPad, but we don't really know why people are buying it, and especially how they are using it. That's the key to understand why the iPad is so successful and how it will impact sales of other gadgets, which the iPad replaces to some extent. A recent sturdy by Resolve Market Research sheds a light on this matter and what they reveal is pretty astonishing, at least to me.When asked which one of the following, portable gaming console, the iPad and smartphones, are better...

There are ways and there are ways of building a touchscreen, but almost all of them imply using a special layer that attaches over the surface of the original display and interprets your touch points into coordinates that are then transmitted to a computer, which applies your action.One user tried to do it differently, using range sensors mounted on the side of the display, so that they pick up the distance from them to your hand, thus computing where exactly on the screen you are pointing. ...

We've told you about the video demo of the iPad running flash a few days ago and now it's time to actually show you how it can be done. So after all that was not a joke, but a really working scenario, one which can be replicated right now on any jailbroken iPad, so if you're like me and can't stand all the limitation imposed by Steve Jobs, all you have to do is follow the step by step guide provided by Engadget.The thing is called Frash and can run flash games with ease, but no flash video s...

Everyone is complaining that Microsoft Windows 7 based slate tablets are no match for iPad, and it's hard not to agree, especially since most products are presented by small Chinese companies nobody trusts. The only 'serious' models are the ASUS EEE Pad series, but we haven't seen them in stores, so we can't really say if they're good for something. The thing is that Microsoft is not really to blame here, especially since they've done a lot of effort to help manufacturers build the perfect table...

It's interesting to see how tablets have risen so fast in appeal in just a few months, months in which Apple has sold over two million iPads. This is why it's not a miracle that some hardware manufacturers have started offering open source kits for DIY (Do It Yourself) touch tablets. One of them is produced by Liquidware, who call themselves Open Source Electronics guys. The kit is calle Beagle Embedded Starter Kit and costs around 400$, offering all you need to set up your own tablet in a few m...

Today I was sitting in front of my computer (same as always, my friends would say) and thought of what interesting articles to write and spotted the following idea: how would my perfect tablet look like and how it should perform.That's right, my perfect tablet, not the perfect tablet. Needless to say that the perfect tablet doesn't exist yet, and won't ever be built, because perfect is something that depends on who you ask.I'm not dealing with perfection in this post but with expressing ...