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If the name doesn't tell you anything take a look here, where we've talked about this project a few months ago. OLPC stands for One Laptop Per Child and is many times named as the 100 dollar laptop, an educational project to bring to developing countries a cheap laptop that can be distributed in schools. Intel has a similar project, called the Classmate PC, so the battle is fierce, even on the market of cheap tablets. OLPC XO-3 is an interesting concept, that despite its futuristic looks could t...

Whether you like it or not, Microsoft is one of the leading companies when it comes to bringing new technologies to market. Their latest endeavor is the Manual Deskterity project which tries to build a special type of software interface that will permit use of finger touch and pen input at the same time. This makes for a great tool to note down your creative ideas using an interactive table or a plain touchscreen tablet.Current devices are build for either pen or finger input and even if you...

Touch tables are not a tabu subject here as we've talked about them quite a few times. But they are sensitive when you talk about pricing, which is situated usually North of 10.000 $ mark, some even doubling or tripling this number, so if you're a fan you'll probably stay this way if you don't do something like building your own touch table for cheap. 1500-2500$ is not exactly cheap today, but it is way cheaper than waiting for Microsoft Surface to get down to a manageable price.All you'll n...

I'm not a big fan of Poker but I must admit I would play the game on an interactive table like the one built by some German students who used a multi touch table and a Bluetooth connection to pair their phones to that table. The phones are used to see the cards but can also be used to bet, call and accomplish other Poker related actions. Alternatively the interactive table is used for those actions (except card viewing which can only be done on participant's phones).It's a pretty interesting...

We've talked a few weeks ago about the Light Touch device, a kind of portable pico projector that integrates also a small computer that computes user interactions with the projected image thus acting like a touch interface. Light Touch is developed by Light Blue Optics, which made a long demo for someone at Slashgear that explains and demonstrates how the device works in real world. Of course projected images are not that clear like in the press photos and the interface is sluggish to say the le...

Many people say touch interfaces represent the present and future of user interaction with devices. I happen not to completely agree with this statement as touch input is not suited for all types of applications and definitely you can find a better alternative in many situation like when typing a long message or playing a game (you don't want you hand to be on front of the screen so you can't see what's happening). Microsoft thinks that too, that's why they're working on a touch alternative for ...

It's not the first time I write about control methods that are likely to be found in future products, as touchscreens, the main topic here at AllTouchTablet.com are merely an expression of technological advance that took place in past years. In this post I'm going to present you the Puyocon, a new type of controller that might get enough attention and one day find a place in at least a few entertainment devices like game consoles or television sets.[caption id="attachment_987" align="alignce...

I like companies that try and challenge the position taken by big enterprises by getting interesting things on market, proving a small team of dedicated people can do something amazing with a reasonable amount of money. One of those companies is Light Blue Optics,  who presented at CES 2010 a new type of gadget: pico projector that displays an image which can react to human interaction acting like a touchscreen device.The device is called Light Touch and resembles one of the virtual keyboar...

All of us heard about OLPC projects: from the 100 bucks laptop  (XO model) which was a failure, because it never has been anywhere near $100, to the dual-touchscreen XO-2, which the organization abandoned in November 2009. Both these projects were nothing compared with the new enthusiastic concept: an absurdly thin tablet PC slated for 2012, renders of which OLPC revealed these days.They aim to make it from a semi-flexible plastic, extremely durable and waterproof. Having half the thickness...

We first heard about Apple's plans to launch a new type of product, the touch tablet, in 2009, but rumors say that the project was in development since 2003. This doesn't means that the engineers were lazy, but the fact that Steve Jobs and Apple had problems finding out what to do with this new product, where to place it and wether people needed it or not.Another big problem was that of the price: back then components to make such a portable and stylish device were costly and lacked performa...