HP Pavilion dv3 with multitouch screen spotted in the wild, we go hands-on
Our curious British fingers managed to stumble upon a European HP Pavilion dv3 blessed with Windows 7 and multitouch on both the screen and the trackpad. The keyboard was great to type on with negligible flex, but the trackpad suffers from the same glossy issues on other recent HPs — although it responded to our multitouch gestures better than the capacitive screen did. Our major annoyance came from the attempts to rotate pictures on the screen: we learned the hard way that the laptop (or Windows 7 itself) seemed to prefer more exaggerated rotation gestures than the MacBooks — perhaps one would get used to it over time. The hinge is fairly solid, but we still preferred holding the screen while touching it. On a brighter note we totally dig the inclusion of an HDMI port and an eSATA port, plus you’ll get up to seven hours of sweet battery juice from this 2.24kg (4.94 pounds) machine. Read on for our hands-on video and photo gallery.
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HP Pavilion dv3 with multitouch screen spotted in the wild, we go hands-on originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:28:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 27th, 2009
at 8:28pm by Richard Lai
Topics: Europe, Hp, Multi-touch, UK, Windows7, european, features, hewlett packard, laptop, multitouch, notebook, pavilion, touch screen, touchscreen, win 7, win7, windows 7
Acer Aspire 5738PG wants you to reach out and touch its screen
And with that, Acer jumps into the touchscreen laptop waters. Due out on the ever-so-popular October 22nd along with Windows 7 is the Aspire 5738PG laptop, with support for two fingers at once pinching, flicking and double touching their way across the OS, or if you’d prefer, it’s also got a numeric keyboard and multi-gesture touchpad. Housed inside is an Intel Core 2 Duo with ATI Radeon HD 4570, a 15.6-inch LED-backlit screen with 1366 x 768 resolution, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD, HDMI out, four USB 2.0 in, 802.11a/b/g/Draft-N. Starting price is $799.99, which from what we’ve seen isn’t too bad of a deal. Press release after the break.
Gallery: Acer Aspire 5738PG touch notebook
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Acer Aspire 5738PG wants you to reach out and touch its screen originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 14 Oct 2009 04:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 14th, 2009
at 5:30am by Ross Miller
Topics: 5738, 5738 pg, 5738Pg, As5738, As5738Pg, Windows7, acer, as 5738, as 5738 pg, aspire, laptop, touch screen, touchscreen, windows 7
gCubik shows off its good side, and every other while it’s at it (video)
Remember gCubik? It’s been a few months, but to recap, it’s a cube developed by researchers from NICT that features textured surfaces that present you a different view on the “internal” image based on viewing angle, giving the illusion something is physically in the box. Theoretically, at least — it’s pretty low-resolution and in the early stages of development. We stumbled upon the device at the CEATEC showfloor this week and decided to snap some video while there. There were moments when the effect was lost, and getting too close completely blurred what we saw to the point of incomprehension, but again, this shows a whole heap of potential that’s fascinating to us. See it for yourself after the break.
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gCubik shows off its good side, and every other while it’s at it (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 09 Oct 2009 06:46:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 9th, 2009
at 7:46am by Ross Miller
Topics: 3d, 3d display, 3dDisplay, Ceatec2009, HandsOn, ceatec, ceatec 2009, cube, featured, features, gcubik, hands on, nict, touch screen, touchscreen
Get your hands on the wall now! …with this multi-touch projector
What if, instead of a touch screen, you could reach out and touch (and manipulate) an image on any surface? Seems like a cheapskate alternative to buying a touch-screen white board to me.
Japanese company Funai Electric is setting up to do just that. They’ve created an alternative to the standard touch screen, using a projector that is capable of creating the functionality of said screen on any surface. The projector uses a system of laser light and sensors to tell when an object (say a finger) has been placed over the image, allowing a user to manipulate the image using gestures. The projected image is decidedly low resolution, so it may not be a complete replacement for the Microsoft Surface technology, but it could be a budget alternative.
The projector is currently just a prototype, but the company developing it has stated that they hope to have a commercial version available as soon as early 2010.
Posted: October 6th, 2009
at 12:22am by Dave Freeman
Topics: Headline, interface, projector, touch screen
