All Gadgets, All The Time

PQ Labs showed off its G3 touchscreen technology at this year’s CeBIT by installing it into a coffee table called the iTable. Sensors around the edge of the display can register up to 32 touch points and determine the different shapes created by placing fingers, hands or a multitude of other objects directly on the glass screen. ..

Tags: Cebit,
multi-touch,
PQ Labs,
Touchscreen

Related Articles:

• Ideum’s 86 inch multi-touch table explores the electromagnetic spectrum
• Microsoft patent multi touch screen keyboard
• LG Capacitive In-Cell Multi-Touch LCD panel first to get thumbs up from Microsoft
• Displax ’skin’ turns virtually any surface into multi-touch display
• Surface Computing: Microsoft takes touch screens to the next level
• Wacom’s new Bamboo gets you multi-touching for under $100

View full post on Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

Hussar Inspired Dakar Rally
(more…)

View full post on Future Transportation

We just sat down with Palm here at GDC and fished out a few more details on the PDK beta front. Firstly, and most interestingly, Palm has confirmed that the PDK now works on all of its handsets (instead of just the Pre and Pre Plus), which means Pixi buyers can stop hating themselves pretty soon. Apparently the level of performance degradation should be comparable iPhone 3G vs. 3GS, which doesn’t sound too horrible. This is functionality that wasn’t available even to Palm’s early PDK partners like EA and Gameloft, so we should be seeing versions of existing games make the jump to the Pixi when the time for PDK beta-developed apps to hit the Palm App Catalog. When will that time come, you ask? The “middle of the year,” or “a few months,” whichever sounds more promising to you. Palm’s not saying whether this new era for the App Catalog (anyone being able to release PDK apps, and those apps working on the Pre and the Pixi) will accompany a full-on webOS update, but it seems logical to us.

On a more technical front, we’re told the PDK supports the Linux standard SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) to ease in porting and development (Unreal for Linux runs using SDL, for instance), and that developers could even build apps like an audio processor that rely on PDK components but don’t show up in the UI at all, or OpenGL-empowered things that aren’t necessarily games or in 3D. Also, existing developers have only been able to do “full screen” games that rely on PDK components alone, but the PDK beta lets you mix and match webOS UI with PDK elements. Currently there aren’t many PDK games that use the extra Palm hardware like the QWERTY keyboard and the gesture area, but we’re told that’s all exposed to the developer, along with any other element of webOS that Mojo SDK users have access to. One notable plugin hangup is the fact that Flash only works in the browser, and can’t be embedded into a regular webOS app, PDK or no — though we have to assume this is something that’s in the works.

Palm’s webOS PDK beta adds Pixi native development, PDK’d apps will hit the Catalog mid year originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:12:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |   | Email this | Comments View full post on Engadget

It’s no M6500, but Dell’s Precision M4500 packs a lot into a 15.6″ form factor with a 1GB Quadro FX 1800M or 880M, Core i5/i7 CPU, 3 MP camera, backlit keyboard, and Gobi 2.0.

• Link: http://www.theawesomer.com/c/click.php?id=9665
• Hat Tip: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/09/dell-brings-next-gen-precision-performance-to-m4500-15-6-incher/

Related posts:

1. Dell E6400
2. Dell Precision M4400 Laptop
3. Dell M6400 Laptop

View full post on The Awesomer

Many people recognize Macs as being great work tools, especially for those in the creative sectors. However, if you like your games, often the PC was your best platform because of the amount of available content. Some Mac users were forced to deploy Parallels, Crossover Games, or Boot Camp, to play PC games on their Mac, but they’ve all got their drawbacks. So Mac users rejoice – Valve, a major provider of online gaming through its Steam online distribution service, is coming to OS X users. From April, Steam and Valve’s library of games that include Left 4 Dead 2, Team Fortress 2, Counter-Strike, Portal, and the Half-Life series will be available on the Mac. And because the company is treating Macs as a tier-1 platform, all future games and updates will be simultaneously released on Windows, Mac and Xbox 360…

Tags: Games,
Macintosh,
Windows,
Xbox 360

Related Articles:

• The Steam Holiday Sale: 10-75% off everything
• Games that work on a netbook
• The Top 50 Best Selling Xbox 360 Games
• Steam propulsion set to make a comeback
• Sharp Introduces Superheated Steam Oven
• Razer, Sixense and Valve bringing motion control to PC gamers

View full post on Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine

PlayStation Network first to offer HD movies to all

Sony?has announced that it has signed a deal with six Hollywood studios to deliver movies to your TV in HD via the PS3.

The company has signed the deal with 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Pictures, and Warner Bros. meaning it is the first to offer films from all the major movie studios direct to your TV via download.

Films already promised include Fantastic Mr Fox, Inglorious Bastards, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, and Zombieland.

The news is likely to send widespread panic through video rental firms like BlockBuster and LoveFilm who are already struggling against services like Apple TV, Boxee and Hulu.

Sony has said the new offering will first launch in the US, although has not announced an official timeline for the roll out, but has said that it does have plans to launch in the UK, France, Germany, and Spain shortly afterwards.

The films will be delivered via the PlayStation network,

Tags:
Home Cinema Gaming Sony PS3

PS3 goes to the movies: Sony signs up all major Hollywood studios for HD films originally appeared on http://www.pocket-lint.com on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:36:32 +0000

View full post on Pocket-lint

Newegg selling ASUS Eee Box with Red Flag Linux pre-installed originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink   |  Newegg  | Email this | Comments View full post on Engadget

The Hand Grenade Sword Cane is likely the most awesome multi-tool ever: pull the pin to uncover a compass, unscrew the grenade to reveal a sword, or just use the cane to bludgeon enemies.

• Link: http://www.theawesomer.com/c/click.php?id=9658
• Price: $30

Related posts:

1. Becker TacTool
2. Manticuda Knife
3. Swashbuckling BBQ Sword

View full post on The Awesomer

Audi Akimono
(more…)

View full post on Future Transportation

USB sticks are great for file sharing, apart from a couple of drawbacks. Sometimes you want to share only some content of the drive, or the drive just isn’t big enough to hold all the information you want to share. The Infinitec Infinite USB Memory (IUM) drive provides you with a way to share absolutely all, or just selected content, wirelessly to any device with a USB port. You can even use it to stream movies from your laptop to your TV. And while it is being marketed as the world’s first infinite memory USB memory drive, the device doesn’t actually store information, it’s really a wireless network device with similar “infinite memory” functions to the Eye-fi Pro X2 we featured earlier this year…

Tags: Blu-ray,
Content,
File,
Laptop,
Music,
PC,
Share,
Sharing,
Stick,
Storage,
USB,
Wireless,
Xbox 360

Related Articles:

• Stream your home media files with the WirelessMediaStick from Home Server Technologies Inc (HSTi)
• USB ShareDrive: the thumbdrive with a brain
• LG’s XF1 external multimedia HDD looks the part
• All-in-One Instant Communications Software released – contains Instant Messaging, Blogging, Photo Sharing, File Sharing and Desktop Search
• The SimpleNET USB Drive Network Adapter
• LaCie LaCinema Classic HD has DLNA server, Wi-Fi and up to 2TB storage

View full post on Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine