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I love vending machines, because I could always easily find my favorite cola there. But things are different now, as the Transparent Touchscreen Vending Machine developed by Sanden, in cooperation with Okaya Electronics and Intel offers me another reason to appreciate the machines: you love it simply because the vending machine is fabulous! It comes with a 65-inch full HD vertical screen on front, displaying animated graphics, clock time and other information from time to time. As people walk by, it would display customized menus based on facial recognition technology.

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What do you usually do during the boring time caused by traffic jam, to play your iPad, have a chat with beautiful ladies or just sit there without thinking anything? Maybe you should get some better alternatives, such as the Car Bluetooth Rearview Mirror Kit. It includes a 4.3 inch touchscreen, a built-in GPS navigation, multimedia on-the-go, DVR capabilities, and a wireless parking camera, once installed to replace your normal rearview mirror, the device would then allow you to play games in car. Isn’t that great? It offers you great pleasure while never taking up you too much space or costing you too much money.

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What is iDigiTip? Basically it’s a digital accessory, but exactly it’s a magical gadget that offers you better experience of using your cellphones or touchscreen tablets. It works like an electronic pen worn on your finger, allowing you to control the small buttons on your cellphone with a more accurate action or handles your iPad without leaving any finger prints. More importantly, when wearing such a gadget to use your tablets or the public ATM machines, you can make sure that your finger prints will never get stolen.

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How to ensure the safety of your data stored within a hard disk drive? Our suggestion is to use the EZSAVE Lockdown USB 3.0 2.5″ HDD Enclosure. Once connected to your computers, the HDD enclosure will ask you to key in a four to eight digit pin with its OLED touchscreen, and the digit pin is expected to keep your data safe without the worry that somebody may decode it. The device features AES 256bit drive encryption, which is also used by the central government of the United States, so it is really reliable to store your data within it.

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With the assistance of devices like Braille typewriters, people who have visual problems are now able to use touchscreens. But we’re still glad to see revolutionary technology that will lead the world to a new age. This innovative interface here is rightly something quite valuable. It is especially designed for the visually-impaired, allowing them to control tablet PCs or mobile phones directly with their fingers. Instead of requiring users to find the right keys, the interface can detect and locate the users’ fingers and then set up a keyboard there. As a result, anywhere the user types in, the letter is then created and stated aloud.

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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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Sleepbox is a mini building that allows you to sleep comfortably and conveniently. It was originally a conceptualized design put forward in 2009 and now has been installed at Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, for travelers to rent and sleep for hours during their transfers at airports. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Ever imagined to use your hand as a touchscreen? Turn your idea come true with Kei Nakatsuma’s wrist sensor then. Based on infrared detection, the device can figure out where the user’s finger is and detects the finger’s “tap” or “click” motions to accomplish certain tasks. As it turns users’ back of hand into a trackpad, you no longer need to bring touchscreens around next time you prepare for a talking show. [Read the rest of this entry...]

iStrike Stylus changes your drawing jobs into striking progresses. Suitable for any capacitive touch-screen devices such as Apple iPad or iPhone, the “match” moves smoothly on screens to effectively finish your work when keeps your screen away from fingerprints. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Honestly both we I New Idea and guys from Apple wish the blind people, though they cannot share every same thing with us, could get the opportunity to enjoy their time with iPad. All for sharing! [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...]

Why pay more for touchscreens when you can actually spend less money on them? Designed by Fraunhofer Institute, the alternative display for touchscreens is made of renewable raw materials that are as cheap as common plastic. [Read the rest of this entry...]

How to quickly and conveniently find your car among the hundreds and even thousands ones? The camera-based ‘Find Your Car’ system installed in Santa Monica Place may help you quite much. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Thanks for Nico Smeenk, the patients will live a more comfortable life when in the hospitals, and their family (or the hospital staff) will ease their jobs of intensive care. Because in the future, they’ll use the innovative ICU bed! It features a single touch screen for the staff to check out all the data and also a foot-operated interface panel for hands-free operation. But that’s not all! To ensure the patients an easier and more convenient using, the bed is designed to be set in various shapes, e.g. an ordinary bed and a wheelchair. [Read the rest of this entry...]

While most researchers are trying to improve the touchscreen interfaces used on PC, cellphones and MP3 players, Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft have developed a touch-interface for your skin. That’s really terrific! The ‘Skinput’ includes a micro-sized pico projector, which is embedded in an armband to beam an interface on the skin. But it actually uses an acoustic detector —which would match the sound frequencies with specific skin locations—to recognize which part  you’ve tapped. The revolutionary technology also supports wireless applications like Bluetooth.

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