Articles about touchscreen

Remember the Lenovo IdeaPad U1 hybrid tablet/notebook device from CES? If not head on here to read about it. It's an interesting concept about a device capable of being two gadgets in one: a notebook with an ULV CPU and a tablet on its own once you remove the screen and start using it as a slate type tablet. Many of you liked the concept so Lenovo thought of bringing it to production and even made an announcement on their site about the IdeaPad U1, which is coming soon! You can subscribe there t...

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...

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...

There are two ways a manufacturer can get attention to its products: build something cheap, powerful and with nice design or do something new that breaks any patterns thus getting the media guys to talk about it, and from there it's success all over. Lenovo chose the second alternative when it came up with the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid notebook plus slate/tablet gadget. The plus means you have two gadgets in one: a regular notebook with a 11.6 inch screen and an Intel Core 2 Duo ULV CPU and a detachable...

Definition of a touch tablet: it's device with all the functions of a laptop, has a touchscreen enabled display and does not have a hardware keyboard (if it had it would be called a Tablet PC). When you think of a touch screen tablet you think of a notebook (the paper kind) that allows you to digitally store what you write or draw. It's small size and weights less compared to a regular laptop, being designed for comfortable use.Usually touch tablets have special versions of operating systems...