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High-Tech Restaurant ‘Projects’ Food Onto Plates
An Asian restaurant has taken the traditional restaurant concept to an entirely new level. The restaurant uses a touch interface for ordering and catering to a customer’s needs. Continue reading
New Amazon Tablet Details Leaked — Specs, Price and More
New details about Amazon’s tablet PC have been leaked, and they’re actually from a credible source. Continue reading
Amazon will Compete With iPad, Announces Touchscreen Tablet for October
Amazon’s new touchscreen tablet PC will be released this October. Let the Apple vs. Amazon battle begin! Continue reading
Finally a Useful Solution For Gaming on the iPad
Using your thumbs to manipulate a virtual joystick is about as intuitive as ice-skating on gravel. The Fling, pictured above, offers a stupid simple solution to gaming with your thumbs on the iPad. Continue reading
No Empty Gestures: Touchless Interface to Demo at CES
The Norwegian firm Elliptic Labs’ booth at CES next week will feature several implementations of a touchless, gesture-based interface for tablets and mobile devices, according to the company. Unlike the Kinect, Elliptic’s interface, called Ultrasonic Touchless Input, graphs hand movements using echolocation. Bathing the user in a silent ultrasonic torrent, it measures the return time of rebounding sonic impulses to map gestures in three dimensions. Paul Marks at New Scientist limns a few of the most obvious uses of such... Continue reading
A touchscreen for the Abominable Snowman
Turning a wall of ice into a touch screen may not have much practical use, but it’s magical nonetheless. Continue reading
Touch Menus in Restaurants Could Eliminate The Need For Servers (and Tips)
About 90% of resturant awkwardness occurs when trying to converse with the server. I think most of the small talk is awkward for a few simple reasons. First, you don’t really care whether the waitress is having a busy night or not. You just want your food. Second, the waitress doesn’t really care how your evening is going. She just wants you to order so she can go in the back and have a smoke. In the not-so-distant future, these... Continue reading
Misa Digital Guitar Replaces Strings with Touchscreen
We’ve seen some crazily zany guitar designs in our day but none that have essentially ended its stature as a true guitar. The Misa Digital Guitar cuts out the strings and replaces them with a multi-touch screen. Sort of defeats the purpose of acoustics, but who the hell cares, this thing is beyond innovative. Pretty much a handheld MIDI controller on steroids, the Misa Guitar contains 24 complete frets and a fully interactive touchscreen, effectively making every other guitar ever... Continue reading
iTwinge Adds Tactile Keyboard to iPhone
Many Blackberry users have been holding out on the iPhone because of the device’s lack of a real feel keyboard. The iTwinge adds an actual tactile keyboard to the phone, while making it look uglier than any Blackberry ever released. Big thumbs got you down? The touchscreen of the iPhone has caused some serious issues for some users who have larger than average fingers. I’ve never had much of a problem thanks to the phone’s auto-correct feature, but I’ve heard... Continue reading
Samsung I7500: Android Goodness
Rumors of an upcoming Samsung phone running Google’s Android OS were abound throughout the first quarter of this year. Now Samsung has laid those to rest and announced the I7500, an Android-powered phone that will drop in Europe this June and has already landed in Korea. What can it do? Aside from all your basic media playback bullshit (MP3, videos, etc.), it comes with a 3.2-inch AMOLED touchscreen, GPS, WiFi and 8GB of internal memory. The camera is 5-megapixels, but... Continue reading
