It’s all about perspective. At least, that’s what we’ve gleaned from a Surface skim (hard wink) of this Microsoft patent application. Filed back in December of 2010, the USPTO doc describes a touchscreen tabletop imbued with a “view-restrictive filte…
Google vowed that it would adapt Chrome to Metro back in March, and it’s just now providing its first real look at the Windows 8 revamp. Don’t expect a radical remake: it’s Chrome, just in Metro. Even so, the very first test releases will support c…
Typing with thumbs on glass can often prove to be as fruitful as talking to an actual wall. That is to say, both are an exercise in frustration. Yet, with smartphone adoption continuing to climb, that method of touchscreen input is only going to beco…
If you’re looking for pricing, specs, availability and all that good stuff, then you’ve come to the wrong place. What we have here is a gallery of photos revealing Toshiba’s various concepts of what Windows 8 devices ought to look like. There’s a Tra…
Intel is presenting at the e21 Forum at Computex in Taipei, and SVP Tom Kilroy just announced that the company is planning to focus on touch-enabled Ultrabooks, investing in factories that produce panels that are 13 inches and larger. Some of the par…
Call it what you will: a 22-inch Android tablet or an ARM-based desktop. Whatever nomenclature you prefer, this much is true: the Viewsonic VCD22 is an odd bird. Though it looks like just another all-in-one desktop, it packs a TI OMAP processor and r…
Have we finally found a tablet match for the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note? ViewSonic sent around a teaser for its “Touch and Connect” series prototypes, including a 22-inch “smart business tablet monitor,” powered by what appears to be Ice Cream Sandwich. Th…
It’s been a long, long time since Apple undertook a significant redesign of the iPod touch, which hasn’t been looked at since 2010 and received just a splash of white last year. A possible front panel part leak we’ve just seen could overturn all that…
If you’ve been waiting to, literally, get your hands on the submissive A720 all-in-one from Lenovo, now you can. When we got our paws on it back at CES, it’s fair to say we were intrigued. Now, the 27-inch 10-point multitouch PC is up for your buying…
HP’s TouchSmart sub-brand and its other AIOs should be no stranger to many PC advocates, but in case you’ve never come across one before, the company’s laid all of them out on one side of its Global Influencer Summit in Shanghai. Models range from th…
