Pitching a tint
Forthcoming: touch screens for big and small technologies that can be ordered in one of 13 tinted colors. The stated rationale is to “match the body of a given device with its touch screen,” but we...
View ArticleLargesse
Intel has come up with a pretty cool wireless capability. Hook a small box up to a TV, press a button on your laptop, and voila: a large computer display. This has terrific implications for...
View ArticleA wonderous bird is the Pelikon
The Pelikon MorphPad can light up different sections of a mobile device’s keyboard based on the active function–just the numbers for telephony, just the control keys for a game. Should be useful for...
View ArticleHorsing around
Oh, how we look forward to the product announcements that come out this day each year. First up: the Pad-Dock, which enhances the iPhone with a touch-screen magnifier so that it has the same large...
View ArticleShine on you crazy keyboard
Hmm…spend $2,400 on an Optimus Maximus keyboard, or spend $10 for fluorescent keyboard labels that will at least let us pretend we have an Optimus. The Glowing Keyboard Stickers could be useful for...
View ArticleTouched by untouching
A company called Cypress is working on TrueTouch technology for mobile device screens. TrueTouch can respond to a finger that is hovering above it, and respond differently to an actual touch. When we...
View ArticleNokia if you got ’em
You’ve got a Nokia N8 phone. You’ve got a TV or other display with an HDMI interface. You plug the former into the latter, and voila: an instant magnified, touchscreen-style interface for a limited...
View ArticleExquisite control
Oh my, we do like the Sony RM-KZ1 universal remote. Originally designed for kids, its main buttons are all distinct shapes (easy to distinguish by touch for blind folks) and have high-contrast...
View ArticleInstapaper auto adjusts contrast based on time of day
Instapaper is a neat little iPhone app that lets you save websites for future perusal. What’s interesting about its latest release is that it lets you enter your location, and adjusts the...
View ArticleChameleon lamp reacts to ambient background
The Huey lamp senses the color of whatever it’s sitting on and changes to match that color. What we’d love to see as a related product is a lamp with the same type of sensors, but that responds by...
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