May 19, 2013

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7-inch Ziio tablet made by Creative hits the FCC

Image of Creative Ziio Tablet

Creative announced their plans for a pair of Android based tablets a few months back, but since then we haven’t heard much of the device’s details. The European devices are set to launch with 7-inch and 10-inch models, and the 7-inch model has just hit the FCC. complete with user manual and lovely snapshots of [...]

World’s first “Ice touchscreen display” built by Nokia NRC Tempere

Image of Nokia Ice Touch Screen

Researchers from the Nokia Research Center in Tampere, Finland, have turned a wall of ice into a huge interactive touchscreen display. Using infrared emitters and detectors to determine hand location and movement, the team projected images onto the blocks of ice so that users could see flames behind their hands. Happily, users didn’t need to [...]