Articles about tablet prototype

3M is one of the biggest companies out there pushing out news technologies for consumers to embrace. Their latest trick, presented at CES 2010, was a multi touch screen panel capable to figuring out 10 finger multi touch gestures. That surely it the maximum we need for single use (we don't have more than 10 fingers don't we?). The 19 inch screen with 1680 x 1050 pixels screen made sure things weren't too cramped there and your fingers can move freely. The prototype presented had DVI and VGA conn...

It's not the first time we talk about the ASUS with its rumored EEE PC slate type tablet (or better said PAD) which apparently was present at CES this year but not where you would expect it but at Nvidia's booth where it was displayed as an ASUS concept tablet using the Tegra 2 chipset.[caption id="attachment_942" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="ASUS EEE Tablet prototype"][/caption]It's clear that for now ASUS hasn't decided it to go on with this tablet because the prototype dis...

What strikes me is that at CES 2010 many mobile devices were powered not by low power Intel chips but by the latest generation Qualcomm SnapDragon processors running at 1 GHz. This means of course no Windows 7 OS, but the simpler (from resources point of view) Android OS and other Linux variants. Qualcomm had at its booth a running prototype named SnapTop, a kind of touch tablet with a detachable Bluetoot keyboard and desk stand that both snap from the back of the device.[caption id="attachm...

Android, Tegra 2, E-ink, swivel web cams, all those things were common this year at CES, but what about all of them inside the same device.Yes, it's possible, with the Notion Ink Adam touch tablet (slate form) integrating the Pixel Qi E-Ink type screen, "la piece de resistance", a hybrid LCD screen which operates in two modes: LCD more for indoor use and normal power consumption and a low power reflective mode that cuts down power and mutes colors (to a black and white almost look) plus it g...

The ink hasn't ever dried on the Nvidia's Tegra 2 chipset family announcement and tablet prototypes running it had already hit the web. Quanta, one of the biggest OEM manufacturers in the world, presented at its booth at CES a working prototype of a slate tablet running Android OS on a Tegra 2 chipset. Being a prototype means beta software so some things didn't run as smoothly as you might have expected, notable being the touch screen which seemed to miss a few touches once in a while and a wobb...

If you thought the dual screen netbook/tablet MSI prototype was cool wait till I tell you about the enTourage eDGe dualbook: a strange mix between a touch screen tablet and an eReader glued together like siamese twins. There's two devices inside the enTourage eDGe, each one of them with its own advantages and disadvantages as the eReader can't display full color pictures and videos while the netbook isn't suited for long periods of reading.That's why this marvelous concept brought two differ...

I've told you about the rumored Dell Streak tablet a few months ago, but then it was just a rumor. New info has surfaced now as Dell presented a Streak prototype during CES 2010: a 5 inch OLED screen tablet running Android OS. Given the 5 inch screen size I'll say we have some sort of MID here, or a bigger smartphone, not a tablet in the normal sense.Another problem is that Dell just presented this, without giving any additional info like availability (first half of 2010 isn't too exact to b...

Touchscreen is part of our future, that's for sure, but others are seeking alternative to it till it becomes mainstream, others in this case being ASUS and Bang and Olufsen which teamed up to build the NX90, a luxurious multimedia laptop with one interesting feature you won't find anywhere else: two integrated touchpads mounted side by side the black keyboard, contrasting with the sleek aluminum finish of the casing of this 18.4 inch monster.[caption id="attachment_749" align="aligncenter" w...

As you already know, by far the best touchscreen technology today is capacitive in nature, but the downsize now is the high production cost of bigger diagonal display panels plus the inability to build bigger size screens, a problem that prohibits proliferation of bigger diagonal multi touchscreens.This situation is it change soon, as Chunghwa Picture Tube (CPT) announced they're working on a 21.5 diagonal projective capacitive touchscreen that will hit market next year. Projective capacitiv...

We've showed you the Microsoft Courier concept, a dual screen netbook/reader they've released a promotional video a few months ago, but some users couldn't wait that much so decided to build their own dual screen netbook. The base was once again the Dell Mini 9, a robust netbook when it comes to modifications, but a pretty awful one when it comes to performance and ergonomics.[caption id="attachment_589" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Harlequin working"][/caption]This dual scre...