Articles about tablet prototype

Besides the Exite X10, world's thinnest tablet to date, Toshiba has showcased a lot of tablet prototypes at its CES 2012 booth, most of which lack any kind of specs besides the screen diagonal size.Toshiba wanted to show everyone the form factors it's been working on for the past year, and I can say some of the products on display looked rather impressive in terms of design, with a strong industrial build that we wouldn't mind see on the current Thrive lineup instead of the bulky rubbery cas...

Razer is known as a gaming peripherals manufacturer, that's why it comes as little bit of a surprise they've adventured in the tablet land with the Project Fiona gaming tablet. It's not Android, but rather Windows 8 with quite powerful hardware: Core i7 CPU (probably a low voltage variation) and an undisclosed GPU, so it's got the power to play pretty powerful games, not just lightweight iOS style titles. The screen is a 10.1 inch model with 1280 x 800 pixels resolution. Other niceties include D...

ASUS PadFone tablet-smartphone hybrid is an old acquaintance of ours, one that has raised a lot of interest, but failed to reach the market. Fortunately it seems ASUS is on track to deliver on this concept, at the sample demoed at CES 2012 was actually a working one, albeit it didn't look problem free.The biggest source for worries is the docking part, when you have to slide the smartphone inside the tablet body (a screen with an additional battery and some ports, not an actual tablet) and c...

Senseg is the touch screen that touches you back. That's right, the first technology that allows us to 'feel' the surface of the touchscreen. It's not the same thing as haptic feedback, which only vibrates when we touch a surface, but an actual technology that allows us to get a tactile feedback that simulates things like sandpaper, glass (that shouldn't be hard to imitate) and surfaces with different levels of friction.Senseg actually has a working prototype you'll be able to see in the vid...

After yesterday's Window 8 developer demo it's time for Intel to showcase it's Honeycomb tablet prototype based on the Medfield platform at IDF 2011 (Intel Developer Forum). Since Microsoft is opening the window for ARM chips it's normal for Intel to try and get into the traditional ARM territory, which are tablets and smartphones.We don't know too much about the reference Medfield Honeycomb tablet, except it seems roughly the same size and thickness (8.9 mm) as the slimmest Android tablets ...

One sub-niche of tablets that seems to get much attention those days is the one covered by dual-screen devices like the Entourage Edge last year, the Kno and Sony S2 this year. Why I say this micro niche is catching momentum is because Imerj just presented their Smartpad prototype, essentially a dual 4 inch Android smartphone running 2.3 Gingerbread with a few customizations added on top of the default UI to make apps take advantage of the additional display.If you want to superficially cha...

I don't know if you remember the UMPC concept, the ultra-mobile PC that preceded tablets a few years ago. There were quite a few models on market, but they all had problems: either price too high (over 2000$) or too slow and hard to use. Today it surfaced that Dell was working on a 7 inch slider tablet prototype, with a full QWERTY keyboard that featured an interesting split keys design to help with thumb typing so you don't have to put the tablet on a flat surface and start typing, making part...

After Microsoft showed it's willing to make its operating system open for ARM chips, is clear that Intel has to do something and make its chips compatible with more widespread operating systems ("you took my lunch, I'll steal your desert" kind of policy). And that something is, of course, opening up for Android, as some prototypes of Intel Oak Trail Atom tablets running the aforementioned OS were displayed for demo at Computex 2011.The Oak Trail series is not something new (read our first me...

IT shows are like car shows: you see a lot of prototypes that probably are not going to make it to market, but that's OK, since you get a glimpse at what manufacturers are planning for the months/years to come and can submit your feedback to them. One of the interesting tablet PC prototypes of Computex 2011 is Intel's Keeley Lake concept, a 'classic' convertible tablet with one major distinction: MacBook Air like thinness.Well, it's not quite as thin as the Air, but it's a lot thinner than m...

I don't know how we've missed this: MSI had an interesting tablet prototype at CES 2011, a WindPad 100W Windows tablet fitted with a pico projector on top, one that swivels around a fixed axis, so it can project images in front or on the back of the device. Of course because it's a prototype, the 10 inch tablet looked pretty bulky, with the projector's frame attached to the top of the frame, but it's enough to make a point.According to MSI, they will try and fit the pico projector also to th...