Albatron’s 42 inches of optical touch monitor get examined on video
While Dell and HP were busy holding a competition to see who could do a worse job of announcing their new optical multitouch displays, Albatron was crafting away a 42-inch monstrosity to completely steal their thunder. The optical part refers to a pair of CMOS sensors embedded in the bezel which are responsible for touch detection, a cheaper alternative to your typical capacitive and resistive tech, which requires an extra USB connection between the monitor and computer. Although some issues were found with Windows 7’s multitouch implementation, the promise of recognizing more than two fingers with the proper software support and the general responsiveness of the unit whet our appetite for more. Alas, nobody dares speak of a price, but a 1080p 22-inch model is already available for $450, in case you wanted to add to your touchy-feely shortlist. The video after the break contains the hands-on and a little mystery — why is there Bulgarian handwriting on the whiteboard in the background?
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Albatron’s 42 inches of optical touch monitor get examined on video originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:23:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 28th, 2009
at 1:23pm by Vladislav Savov
Topics: AlbatronOtm, Cmos, CmosSensors, Hands-onVideo, MultitouchDisplay, MultitouchMonitor, OpticalTouch, OpticalTouchMonitor, TemperedGlass, TouchscreenMonitor, Windows 7 multitouch, Windows7, Windows7Multitouch, albatron, albatron otm, cmos sensors, display, hands on, hands-on video, monitor, multitouch, multitouch display, multitouch monitor, optical touch, optical touch monitor, otm, screen, tempered glass, touchscreen, touchscreen monitor, video, win7, windows 7
Windows 7 receives 7,000 domino salute (video)
If 7,000 dominoes fall in a forest of cheering Microsoft employees, do they make enough noise for us to care? We don’t usually tell Microsoft how to run its promotions, but a domino installation that takes a full three minutes to topple is pretty much an open invitation for “slow boot-up” jokes, and a climactic finale that revolves around a hot air balloon version of your logo crashing against a glass ceiling might also create the wrong impression. Ah well, these guys are engineers and not choreographers, after all — you can see the fruit of their labor after the break.
[Thanks, Colin]
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Windows 7 receives 7,000 domino salute (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 08:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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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
eviGroup’s Pad is a 10-inch 3G tablet with personality
Time to freshen up the old netbook market with a dash of Windows 7, a pinch of touchscreen functionality, and a generous helping of… Seline10? eviGroup, the crew responsible for the attractive 5-inch Wallet MID, has announced the 10.2-inch Pad, whose pièce de résistance is the Seline10 artificial intelligence software that’s been in development for a decade, if you can believe it. Its purpose is to act as your secretary / assistant, and while the novelty’s good, we all know how well Clippy worked out. Fret not though, it’s just an optional extra and shouldn’t detract from the appeal of a device that offers 3G and a/b/g WiFi connectivity, one VGA and three USB ports, multicard reader, webcam, microphone, and the old faithful 1.6GHz of Atom power. A price of under €500 is being touted, with further details set to emerge over the coming days.
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eviGroup’s Pad is a 10-inch 3G tablet with personality originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:24:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 26th, 2009
at 3:24pm by Vladislav Savov
Topics: 3G, ArtificialIntelligence, EvigroupPad, HandwritingRecognition, InternetTablet, Seline10, Windows7, ai, artificial intelligence, eviGroup Pad, evigroup, france, handheld, handwriting, handwriting recognition, internet tablet, mid, pad, tablet, touchscreen, win7, windows 7
Windows 7 Whopper claims its first victim (video)
Few brave souls will even attempt to consume the Windows 7 Whopper, and fewer still will achieve that first dyspepsic bite — as you can plainly see in this video. Indeed, we were sure that this was some sort of promotional stunt for Microsoft in Japan, but now reports are filtering in that these have been available in Texas for years now. Of course, in the Lone Star State it’s not called the Windows 7 Whopper, it’s called “lunch.”
[Via Pocket-lint]
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Windows 7 Whopper claims its first victim (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:09:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2009
at 10:09am by Joseph L. Flatley
Topics: Burger King, BurgerKing, Fast Food, FastFood, Food, Microsoft, Windows7, Windows7Whopper, burger, japan, japanese, promotion, restaurant, restaurants, whopper, win7, windows 7, windows 7 whopper
