Articles about touchscreen

It was about time to take a look at a DIY home project that involves some kind of touch screen technology. So here it is: a developer, a genius nonetheless, has turned his living room wall into a giant touchscreen by using his Android headset, a projector and a Microsoft Kinect sensor.After installing a custom ROM on the Android headset and doing some PC programming he was able to make the Kinect detect his hand's movement on the wall and send the gesture information via his PC to the Androi...

Sony is one of the players constantly raising the bar in the eReader market, and their latest product is even better. Sony Reader Wi-Fi (PRS-T1) is the lightest 6 inch eReader in the worlds, at only 168 grams (5.93 ounces). It's also one of the slimmest, at only 8.9 mm.Now let's talk a little bit about the features of Sony Reader WiFi: it uses a 6 inch E Ink Pearl display with 600 x 800 pixels resolution, on top of which there the "Clear Touch Infrared", a fancy name for the IR  technolog...

It's been a while since we've talked about new touchscreen technologies here at All Touch Tablet, but today it's the perfect time to take a look at an innovative discovery made by a small Chinese company called Greendix: touchscreen displays fitted with solar panels. Yeap, it's that good in concept: additionally to the touch screen layer fitted on the normal display you also put a transparent solar panel that boosts battery life when direct sun light hits the surface of the screen.This tech ...

We've mentioned MeeGo a few times here, but since the OS is still in it's early development stages, with no actual products using it on sight, we've resumed at the small bits thrown to us by Nokia and Intel, the alliance behind MeeGo. That was until today, when someone got a preview of the the touch screen MeeGo user interface on video. If you recall the Nokia N900 with its Maemo OS then you'll feel familiar with MeeGo's UI, one that seems to be using the same multi tasking engine, at least from...

Sure touchscreens are the current gadget trends, who started a few years ago to slowly take over the classic keyboard/keypad/buttons found in older devices. But touchscreens have their disadvantages like poor sunlight legibility, higher power consumption, the fact that you can't operate them under the table (you have to watch them to see where to put your fingers). Nobody said anything about health implication of using a touchscreen. No, your finger won't get stubbed, but there's a far more seri...

Imagine it's 2014 already and touchscreens have already conquered the gadget world everywhere (they almost did id today). It's an exercise someone at TAT had put in digital format, a concept video that dares to look into the future of what personal gadgets will become. It's interesting the way the video begins with the following statement: TAT’s technology powers 470+ million devices, in more than 15 percent of all new phones in 2010 and 20 percent of all touch phones. TAT’s technology als...

We all know that the biggest component consuming power in today's mobile devices is the screen. We all like nice colors, great viewing angles and such but we don't realize how much this is affecting battery life. E-Ink is one of the pioneer companies that invested a lot in low power displays like their eInk lineup consisting of monochrome displays that don't need power to keep an image on the screen, but only when the image changes.As imagined, those kind of screens are ideal for eBook reade...

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. ...

So you have installed Windows 7 and every time you look at your system properties you read the line that says "No Pen or Touch Input is available for this Display". That's Microsoft's way to tell you that your laptop isn't qualified for touch input. Basically you're stuck with the keyboard and mouse.And that's a shame considering all mobile devices these days have some sort of touch interface. Of course you can get a convertible netbook tablet (way cheaper than a convertible tablet laptop li...

All-in-One PCs are a special type of gadgets that interest lightweight PC consumers most, as they're designed to work out of the box, without needing too much time to set up, or IT knowledge for that matter. One of the most interesting All-in-One PCs out there is the Asus EEE Keyboard PC, presented a while ago, that surfaced just now on Amazon for a pretty high 599$.Before shouting that this is too much, take a little time and look at what Apple is offering: a fully fledged netbook mounted i...