May 19, 2013

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Microsoft plans New “ Tactile Display Technology”

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Microsoft filed an application with the US Patent Office last week for a tactile display technology they are calling the “Light-Induced Shape-Memory Polymer Display Screen”. Great…. so what is it?. Such a display could generate small ridges and textures on its surface that could work as navigation guides. For instance, the display could provide a [...]

iPhone “Table Connect” is not Real?

A YouTube video going viral as we speak, in it, two German lads proceed to connect an iPhone to a touchscreen table, then navigate their way through Apple’s familiar menu system. The video has been making the rounds online since it was posted to YouTube two days ago, but are skeptical. It seems one of [...]

iPhone Table Connect – Is it a Microsoft Surface Killer?

iPhone Table Connect

Microsoft Surface, which creates a full Windows experience on a tabletop, has been around for years, but has never really got out of the realm of weird ideas. Suddenly, though, table-sized displays are in vogue, and there is even an iPhone version, Table Connect. Table Connect for iPhone is still in early development but it [...]

iPhone “Table Connect” : Great Touchscreen Table for iPhone

iPhone Table Connect - Touchscreen Table for iPhone

Table Connect, a rather wonderful-looking hardware hack which connects an iPhone to a 58-inch capacitive multi-touch display, allowing full control of the iPhone’s navigation functions, only using hands instead of fingers. The table computer is a 58 inch capacitive touchscreen laying flat. It has a dock connector built in and supposedly allows users to open [...]

GestureTek Introduces 42′ LCD Multi-Touch Table Called GestTable

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GestureTek, award-winning inventor and long-time pioneer of gesture control systems, announced it will showcase its new GestTable’, a 42′ LCD multi-touch surface computing solution, along with the new GestDisplay’, a 70′ turnkey freestanding multi-touch unit, at InfoComm 2010 in Booth N1870. The technologies will run new multi-touch applications for retail, advertising and public spaces. InfoComm [...]

Sony atracTable Multitouch Table Coming on June

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Microsoft Surface, a multi-touch computer that recognizes and responds to hand gestures and real world objects looks like it will get some competition from Sony with their new device called AtracTable. The atracTable, first seen and demoed at Vision 2009 in Stuttgart last year, will be released at the beginning of June according to the [...]