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See What You Print (SWYP) is a sleek concept by Artefact, which is designed to give the printers a new great change. The SWYP combines with a simple stylish appearance and a fantastic user interface, which have made us think of products from Apple. Once wirelessly connected to your cameras or computers, the printer will then allow you to choose and edit your photos with its multi-touch screen. The image on the screen is exactly the photo you will finally get, and that’s also why the printer is named “See What You Print”.

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Ok, let’s firstly make it clear that this wearable pen may be just a design for fun… Because viewers will seldom find it practical even though this  pen claims to be an innovative item that allows safe using from water when you’re in bath. It is molded with plaster and there’s a real pen embedded inside. Simply wear it on your nose, wow, your nose now becomes a pen too. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Students in the University of Groningen will soon take their courses in a 3D theater. The new classroom features a large touchscreen measuring10 meters by 2.8 meters and the world’s largest touchscreen has a curvature of 135 degrees. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What would tables be like in the next few years? Recently the Media Computing Group from Germany offered a possible answer with their BendDesk. It is a clever combination of common tables and computers, featuring a vertical display and a horizontal larger one. Frequently used devices like mouse, keyboard, paper-based documents and others are all built within the two areas, which promise an effective interaction with the users based on multi-touch technology. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Although named as the “Saving Energy Multitap”, the strip actually won’t directly reduce your electricity cost, but helps you to develop a good habit of unplugging the unused gadgets from the strip so as to save the energy. It sucks up the energy wasted by the unplugged devices and uses it in a rational way—to power the touch-sensitive ambient lights on the wall. The main task of the ambient lights is to remind you to switch off those unplugged gadgets if you no longer use them. As for the ambient lights, they could also be turned on or off via simple tapping. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Compared with conventional digital mouse, the “SPHEREtouch” from OreObject not only features a distinctively circular shape, but integrates a large horizontal scroll wheel and two touch-sensitive buttons, allowing you to use it more freely and easily. Finished in steel ($155), titanium ($175) and platinum ($225), “SPHEREtouch” is compatible with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Mac OS X Leopard version 10.4. Both right and left-handed people will find great convenience with the mouse. [Read the rest of this entry...]

What if you could change the window glass, the table surface, or even a piece of plastic into a sensitive touch screen? That sounds attractive, right? Then you’ll be quite interested in the thin film invented by Displax. Easily stuck onto common materials like the glass, plastic and wood, the film could turn most flat surfaces that are range from 3-inches to 120-inches into touch screens. It features a transparency rate of up to 98 percent and comes with an outstanding ability to detect 16 fingers on a 50-inch screen. The first thin film will be available in July. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Nobody would refuse simple ideas that work effectively, or much more effectively. And ‘Inklet’, a latest concept from Ten One Design, is an advanced piece of software that transforms MacBook’s trackpad into a drawing tablet. That is to say, your multi-touch trackpad of the MacBook would translate what you’ve drawn on the interface into drawing marks with the help of ‘Inklet’, just as you can see in the video after the jump. So, for $24.95, you can use your trackpad like a tablet, doesn’t that sound appealing? Cool! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Along with the appearance of iPhone, MacBook, iMac and Mac mini, the Apple Computer Inc has recently come up with another multi-touch product— the Magic Mouse. It is the world’s first Multi-Touch mouse, which allows you to control everything all using your gestures. Therefore you can click, swipe or scroll on the mouse to change the cursor position, browse pages and enlarge items on your screen, etc. Left-handed users can also reassign left and right click.

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Believe me that you wouldn’t mind waiting for a few years to own a futuristic laptop like the Roll-Top, though it’s just a concept product at present. Due to the soft OLED technology, this laptop is a flexible display that unrolls into a multi-touch 17-inch laptop. As it could be rolled up conveniently, Roll-Top is more portable.

The greatest merit of this radiogram is that it provides a cooler way to enjoy radio programs. On the touch screen, there is a global map. Wherever you may touch, the radio will always look for the radio programs of that district through Internet automatically. And just via another selection, you will get your radio programs. Hasn’t it gotten your attention?

Multi-touch device is very magic, iPhone is a good example. This new device from Moixa will lead us to a totally new landscape. It will give you the similar function to iPhone. For example, surfing web, editing & checking emails and playing game. But this device dubbed Sphere is actually a multi-touch ball.

In other words, you iPhone is gonna turn into a ball.

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Multi-touch has been one of the hottest technologies in the world. iPhone is an good example. But this device can help you preview the architecture by multi-touch controller.

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Multi-touch screen is very popular recent years. iPhone is a good representative. But the can not be assembled into a huge screen like traditional LCD products.

But this new product is dubbed MultiTouch Cell.Each LCD screen unit is available in both 32- and 46-inch sizes and offers Full HD capability. MultiTouch claims users will get 50,000 hours of use compared to 3,000 hours for projector-based offerings — as well as improved image resolution, contrast, and color quality. The key point is that they are modular, which means you can assemble a huge multi-touch screen by your own.

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Using Debit and Credit Card for shopping is very common for us normal people, but the blind won’t enjoy this convenience since debit/credit card machines are all digital. This visual assistant card is actually a touchpad with Braille, which is corresponding with the digital touch screen, printed on it. So the blind can also finish the check out process by themselves. [Read the rest of this entry...]