How did we manage before the advent of mobile phones and the Internet. Seriously. I mean, I can’t think of a day that has passed in years where I haven’t relied on my cellphone or computer for some major aspect of my life. In a few years we might be asking a very different question. How did we live without the ProsperPC?

The ProsperPC concept, in entrant for the NextGen PC Design Competition, is basically a family and home management system which monitors everything from power usage, to your gas, water pipes, and climate control, notifying you of any problems, helping you to optimize power usage. But wait, there’s MORE! The ProsperPC, with its biometric touchscreen, also takes it upon itself to send SMS reminders to family members for scheduled appointments, while integrating almost every form of household media, including TV, into one PC based system. (more…)

Distractable drivers beware. This Touchscreen Sun Visor is just another way for you to swerve lanes and miss red lights as you ogle at the DVD or TV you watch, thanks to the ultra-sensitive TV tuner included. It also has radio, but so does your car.

So, yeah, we’re pretty sure that the Touchscreen Sun Visor is made for passengers, and not drivers, but something tells me that all it takes is a sudden dose of ADD to be totally infatuated with the episode of Family Guy that your passenger is watching. Get yours for $128. Hit the jump for specs and more pics. (more…)

The touchscreen community has been pretty unsympathetic to the fat fingered crowd. For people with sausage sized digits, pressing one key on a touchscreen keypad is usually accompanied with the pressing of a second button and the escape of a fucking expletive from their lips.

The TAD Custom Finger Mod slides a ring on your finger with an attached screen poker for easier keypad navigation for those of us with bloated paws. They offer up to size 0.7-inches, so anything higher than that and you either have to lose some weight or get some dialysis to relieve that water weight. Get yours for $6. — Andrew Dobrow

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This concept from John Mielke would implant a special device under your skin which communicates via Bluetooth to your gadgets. Using a special smart-ink pixel painted on to your skin, the device projects a digital tattoo of a phone on your skin which you can interact with like a touchscreen. There’s even the potential to transmit 3G video conversations on your arm.

The device itself is powered by your own blood, converting oxygen and glucose into energy to pump up its fuel cell, so this concept isn’t one which will be popular with the bloodless crowd such as zombies, trees, or Rush Limbaugh (burn!). — Andrew Dobrow

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The future of Internet searching has a strong future, especially as long as companies like the world-dominating Google keep making the most of mobility and advanced search algorithms. The Internet Search: Mobile Version incorporates a touchscreen, built-in camera, WiFi, Google Map and Search, and image recognition to produce a search platform like nothing we’ve never seen.

If you’re wondering what a word means of what building you are standing near, just whip out the mobile searcher and touch the translucent display as you would any touchscreen. The device then conducts a search of the area you clicked on using its image recognition and camera to find search matches for your criteria. (more…)

Alright, check it out fellow gearheads. The Gameboy Color might be ancient by modern standards, but there was a time wher every 9 year-old on the block had one of these. And if they didn’t? They were laughed at for being girly men. Trust me, I’d know. Mash-Mods has created a Gameboy Color unit with a touch-screen module built right in. Simply said, it turns your Gameboy Color into a touchscreen enabled device.

Touch control allows for areas on the screen to correspond to direction and action controls, allowing for RPG’s to add a closer connection between you and your avatar. Since the touch screen is only a prototype design, hiking one for yourself will cost $145. Really not to bad, all things considered. — Andrew Dobrow

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Roy Block is one of those things you don’t see very often. A creation that can revolutionize how we look at something, in this case, gaming. Using a tangible interface, the came stands on the edge of a mixed reality, integrating our world, with the game world. If words could do the concept justice, we would describe it, but we suggest watching the video for the full effect.

Using solid blocks and placing them against a special touchscreen, the in-game character can “walk” along the block depending on where you place them and can sense the blocks location. Truly a unique concept. Looks like a fun experience too. — Andrew Dobrow

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Pictured above is said to be the LG KS20 Smartphone, the follow-up to the LG made Prada phone. The Prada phone was originally designed to take on the iPhone, and besides being a designer phone, lacked the features to do so. The LG KS20, while not sporting the Prada brand name, is a sure fire clone of the Prada model, but with pumped up features.

The KS20 is rumored to run off of Windows Mobile 6.0 Pro, along with steroid induced specs compared to the Prada. Packing in 128MB of memory, a 2.8″, 240×320 pixel, 18-bit (262.144) color touchscreen, GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA/HSUPA capabilities, a 2.0 megapixel camera with auto-focus and flash, Bluetooth, WiFi, TV-out, FM radio, and micro SD support, the KS20 might be the iPhone killer that the Prada phone features couldn’t live up too. The rumored features of the LG KS10 already have some extra ground gained on the iPhone with the addition of WiFi and HSPDA features which enable it to act as a smartphone. — Andrew Dobrow

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Korean company SNT presents IOPS. An on-board PC designed to manage all of your electronic needs while driving. Being shown at CEBIT in Germany, the IOPS runs Windows XP through its main output 7″ touchscreen. In addition to the obvious features of a GPS, the IOPS also has T-DMB channels, which is not even available in the U.S. yet. IOPS also comes with a hard disk in which you can record live TV and then burn it on to a disk all while doing 95 on the freeway. What a rush!

And since IOPS can interface with HSDPA networks, you can also receive an Internet connection for on-the-go shopping, RSS feed reading, or anything your heart desires. All of this is done as its linking with your Bluetooth device and displaying a video feed from your back bumper. Very impressive. Also, very cool. — Andrew Dobrow

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Apple CEO Steve Jobs was spotted in the wild using the still unreleased iPhone. Reports say that Jobs was seen yammering on the phone and listening to music at his kid’s soccer game. Flickr user, Thane, says this about his snapshot:

Yes, the photo is for real, and yes it is an iPhone that he was talking on, or at least it was the same size and shape. He took it out of his pocket to make calls using the touchscreen.

I thought it was interesting, so I took the photo.

I can’t believe this photo has over 1100 views.

Maybe I’ll become a professional paparazzo and save up the $500 to buy one for myself when it’s available.

Very interesting indeed. If he is in fact using the iPhone, this would be the first real spotting of one in everyday use. And who other could be the user, than Steve Jobs? — Andrew Dobrow

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