Its great living in SF, the technical buzz around with many people involved in the industry and even going to work by bus is to get more interesting with an idea by Yahoo.
Twenty humble bus shelters are to be given the Yahoo treatment, this means the installation of touch screen technology where people waiting for the next bus to come can play games and the neighbourhood with the best score will get a block party, n
This is almost science fiction, a watch that is also a cell phone, can you believe that! The device uses very sensitive touchcreen technology on the 1.25 inch display, it also has Bluetooth built in for hands free calling and it works on the tri band network too. It seems that almost everything that you would expect to find in a handheld cell phone, but condensed down into mini size.
These are the features and specs for the very
It was a long time ago when we first see the Kno device; this is dual screened tablet that was initially designed to replace the need for students to carry text books around at college.
However, it would seem that in order to replace text books for students, the device is going to have to be reasonably priced. However, at $899 for the dual screened version and $599 for the single sc
The introduction of touch screen technology has meant that developers have had to tinker with sites to make the touch sensitive, after all using a mouse or finger may seem the to be the same, but in reality on the net they are not and so sites have to adjust in order to provide the user a complete service.
Yahoo have come up with YUI, it’s a user interface library and means that the user with a touch screen device will get just as much satisfaction from the service and someone using the traditional mouse method, hopefully!
For those of you who like tinkering, you might want to think about the next generation touchscreen interface.
And no, that’s not multi-touch but a DIY water-based touchscreen interface.
Take a look at this video of the DIY water touchscreen interface in action:
What do I think of this idea?
I think this can go very far, especially when you consider doing things submerged underwater, perhaps lead to the next generation of water-resistant multi-touch devices.
Well, keep thinkin’
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRP-i5kY8ac
New technology to compete with Wii-motes:
Excerpt:: NaviScribe-based digital pens and styli contain miniaturized optical navigation systems that capture the real-time location of their tips with respect to the dimensions of rectangular writing surfaces including ordinary paper and unmodified flat-panel displays.
NaviScribe devices also capture their full spatial motion as they travel across a writing surface. This absolute 3-D motion data, rich in information not available from methods that capture only relative motion, can be
Looking for a cool way to hack your iMac G4 into a touchscreen computer? Look no more, here’s a DIY iMac G4 touchscreen! The author even hacked a Windows 7 into a PowerPC machine, I don’t know how he did that. (I guess you can install Win 7 on PowerPC CPUs??? Will have a post on that soon too the
Here’s a quick and dirty iPhone/iPod Touch hack for making your own iPhone/iPod Touch stylus using snap fasteners and dental floss as ingredients.
Most standard stylus pens won’t work with Apple’s capacitive screens, but this model seems to use the conductivity and flexibility of a snap fastener bound with dental floss to get the right feel and connection. Feel free to correct our thumbnail circuit punditry, but first check out the simple, cheap building of an iPhone stylus:
video://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sue2BR1AHUE
Here’s an interesting video of how Apple solved the copy and paste mystery 15 years ago. Anyone have an old Mac to try this on?
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