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When the first iPad was launched, one thing that made everyone go wild was the 10 hours battery life promise, an outstanding value when compared with laptops, but given the fact a tablet is a supersized smartphone I think we can all agree its not that impressive anymore when compared to a mobile phone.SleepWell is a wireless technology developed by a student at Duke University, which promises to deliver double battery life on current devices that use WiFi, 3G/4G radios by allowing a device w...

One way big companies research great minds for their upcoming projects is design contests where a specials set of requirements is given and the winners, if deemed worthy, are then presented with an opportunity to work inside the company that organized the contest in the first place. A more selfish approach is to just steal interesting ideas, but this post is not about ethics, but about an interesting tablet concept, the Ecopad, that won a Fujitsu 'Judge's special award' at A life with future com...

After head tracking that controls the cursor on a computer it's time to take a look at the input of the future, the one that will make us as fast as computers (maybe not that fast, but you get the idea): mind control. We all know controlling a cursor on the screen and typing with our hands is only as fast as we are skilled after years of practicing, but there isn't much to improve above a certain point. I for example touch-type for quite a few years now, but there are limits to how fast I can ty...

As you already know, the component that draws the most power from your portable gadgets is the screen. Sure it's nice to have a bright and colorful display, but this comes at the expense of insufficient battery life. A new type of display, that was just announced, promises to solve once and for all the problem with power consumption and, as a byproduct, to bring better sunlight legibility and more vivid colors to portable devices.The display is called b, as it uses ambient light (not backlig...

If you had read All Touch Tablet for some time now you know I'm saying from time to time that touchscreen technology is not the future of user interfaces, but the brain. The moment when we'll be really connected to our gadgets is the moment when we will control them via our thoughts, not gestures. XWave is the first brainwave interface for the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad, an accessory featuring a headphone and an electrode connected to your forehead, that has the purpose of reading your brain waves a...

I still remember like it was yesterday the Terminator 2 movie. The T1000 liquid metal robot made me dream of a nearby future where we could mold liquid just like plastic, but in a more peaceful way, not end of the world kind of way. Apparently things moved faster than anticipated, as Liquidmetal Technologies is already producing such a metal with twice the durability of titanium and which is extremely hard and strong, resistant to corrosion, scratching, and staining, and highly conductive to hea...

One thing Apple is always in front of the competition is the quality of their touchscreens, something we've seen on the iPhone since its first launch and continues on the iPad. The touch precision and overall responsiveness are second to none to anything we've seen on competing devices. Atmel, the company that makes the screens for latest Samsung smartphones with nice large screens, has declared that their latest lineup, called maXTouch, is better than what we're seeing on the iPad right now. ...

Touch input is messy, let's face it. You leave fingerprints and smudges on the screen. If this is not a problem when using your own personal tablet, but things get quite different when you're using a tablet meant for a public space. You simply don't know who touched it and if it's clean or not.Evoluce, one of the pioneers of interactive tables, has presented a 47 inch prototype that not only responds to an unlimited number of simultaneous touches but also recognizes gestures up to 1 meter aw...

2010 is definitely the year of touch tablets as a plethora of products were presented to consumers and new touchscreen technologies have emerged from various research labs and various manufacturers. One of those is Multitoe, developed by Human Computer Interaction lab at the Hasso Plattner Institute which features a rather unique way of interaction: your feet.A special designed touch layer applied on the floor can distinguish pressure points and can differentiate between a step and a tap. U...

Touchscreen technology can be explained basically very easy: you touch the surface of the screen and the device registeres your input and acts accordingly, but for this to happen there are a lot of technologies running in the background. First let's see what are the types of touchscreen technologies currently available to end users:capacitive rezistive surface acoustic wave1 - Rezistive touch screen A capacitive touch screen consists of three layers: screen, a conductive and rezist...