News tagged with touch
Samsung Launches Touch Screen 'Samsung Champ' Mobile Phone
Samsung Electronics announced the Samsung Champ (model: GT-C3300K) designed for mobile users in developing regions who want an immersive touch screen phone with value-added features at an affordable price. ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
May 21, 2010 |
3.2 / 5 (44) |
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Review: Windows 8 a big misstep for Microsoft
The venerable PC is at a crossroads. Sales growth has slowed to a crawl. And consumers and developers are increasingly turning their time and attention to smartphones and tablets.
Mar 28, 2012 |
4.2 / 5 (31) |
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Apple's Jobs unveils 'intimate' $499 iPad tablet
(AP) -- Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the company's much-anticipated iPad tablet computer Wednesday, calling it a new third category of mobile device that is neither smart phone nor laptop, but something ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 27, 2010 |
3.1 / 5 (33) |
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Barrier to faster graphene devices identified and suppressed
These days graphene is the rock star of materials science, but it has an Achilles heel: It is exceptionally sensitive to its electrical environment.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Mar 13, 2012 |
4.7 / 5 (19) |
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Ambient light powered LCD released by Samsung
(PhysOrg.com) -- Most of us are familiar with LCD technology. You probably have an LCD monitor in front of you right now. There may be an LCD TV sitting in your living room, or bedroom, at this very second. ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 04, 2011 |
4.1 / 5 (21) |
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Virtual reality you can touch (w/ Video)
Researchers at the Computer Vision Lab at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, have developed a method with which they can produce virtual copies of real objects. The copies can be touched and even sent via the Internet. ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 19, 2010 |
4.5 / 5 (13) |
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BendDesk introduced: the desk that is a touch screen (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A research project from the RWTH Aachen University Media Computing Group and Department of Work and Cognitive Psychology in Germany is developing a desk in which the entire curved surface ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Dec 14, 2010 |
3.7 / 5 (15) |
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Review: Sony's new PlayStation Vita disappoints
With the PlayStation Vita, Sony has attempted to infuse a traditional handheld game machine with some of the smartphone and tablet features that have made gaming on those devices so popular lately.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Mar 09, 2012 |
1.9 / 5 (28) |
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Virtual reality you can reach out and touch
A team of European researchers has "virtually" teleported real objects through cyberspace, touched things in virtual reality and even felt the movements of a virtual dance partner.
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jul 01, 2010 |
4.5 / 5 (11) |
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Sony Ericsson to Introduce PSP/Smartphone Android 3.0 Gaming Platform
Sources have it that Sony Ericsson is hard at work developing a PSP Go-like phone running on Android 3.0 platform. According to Engadget the phone targets gaming fans and resembles somewhere between a Samsung ...
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Aug 16, 2010 |
4.2 / 5 (12) |
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Gestural hand-tracking interface being developed by MIT researchers (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at MIT have developed software that can track a Lycra fabric glove with a special color pattern. Using only a cheap web camera equipped with a wide angle lens, the software can ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Sep 14, 2010 |
4.9 / 5 (10) |
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Samsung's Droid Charge disappoints
Samsung's Droid Charge is the latest high-end Android smartphone from Verizon. It carries a premium price - but it's not worth it.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 23, 2011 |
1.9 / 5 (25) |
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Experience shapes the brain's circuitry throughout adulthood
The adult brain, long considered to be fixed in its wiring, is in fact remarkably dynamic. Neuroscientists once thought that the brain's wiring was fixed early in life, during a critical period beyond which changes were impossible. ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jun 15, 2010 |
4.6 / 5 (10) |
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HIRO III lets you feel what you see on screen (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Japan are developing a new touch screen system, the HIRO III, that incorporates a robot hand that could offer a new way of simulating the touching of virtual objects and receiving ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Jul 02, 2010 |
4.6 / 5 (10) |
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Touch: How a hard chair creates a hard heart
(PhysOrg.com) -- Through textures, shapes, weights and temperatures, the sense of touch influences both our thoughts and behavior. In a series of six experiments documented in the June 25 issue of the journal ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 24, 2010 |
4 / 5 (11) |
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