Digital Gadgets

Apple patents display leap frog concepts for touch sensitive displays

US Patent & Trademark Office revealed Apple’s patent number 20060026536 titled “Gestures for touch sensitive input devices.” Apple’s heavy hitters such as Jonathan Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr and Steve Hotelling of the famed Chameleon patent are listed on this patent. The touch sensitive system will apply to a number of devices such as a tablet, the iPod, cell phones, PDA’s and other “consumer electronic devices.

This new series of patents support the breaking news that Macsimum first posted last week on the tablet patent titled “Methods and apparatuses for operating a portable device based on an accelerometer.” The patents present a great number of great new-to-market virtual object concepts that are like interactive widgets. The patent officially defines them as “Touch Images” and provides an explanation for such.

Commercial & industrial touch screens applications

It would appear that Apple may consider licensing their advanced screen touch technology – when you consider the following patent point.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of a computer system 500 according to one embodiment of the invention. The computer system 500 may correspond to personal computer systems such as desktops, laptops, tablets or handhelds. By way of example, the computer system 500 may correspond to any Apple or PC based computer system.

More: macsimumnews.com

Samsung i750 news: approved in USA by FCC + to be presented at CeBIT 2006

It’s been a long time coming, but Samsung’s i750 smartphone that we saw back in March last year has finally made its way to the US — well, at least to the FCC website. It’s very similar to Samsung’s own i730 except that it replaces the QWERTY keyboard with a numeric keypad, the EV-DO with EDGE, the 1.3 megapixel camera with a 2 megapixel one, and the SD slot with TransFlash.

Last year, at CeBIT 2005, we have seen Samsung presenting the Samsung i750 Pocket PC phone (the one to the left) and now German magazine Connect is reporting that at CeBIT 2006 Samsung will be presenting this phone again, but this time with additional features:

apparently i750 will be presented with OCR software that will run in this phone and will convert images taken with the 2 megapixel camera of this phone to texts, that will be imported to pocket Outlook.

So we guess that is mixing it up quite a bit, but the form factor has remained the same, Bluetooth and WiFi are still here, and unfortunately so is the OS — Windows Mobile 2003 SE is still alive on this phone which doesn’t even have a ship date yet.

Stylish Xnote S1 laptop by LG

LG is playing a little coy about the features on this one If you’re looking to get your Core Duo on, LG has got another option for you to consider.

The sleekly designed, ultra thin Xnote S1 comes in a black-and-white motif that just screams, “I’ve got style.” The most notable feature is, of course, the Intel Dual Core CPU (there’s no explicit mention of a clock speed), but that’s not to say the rest of the specs should be ignored.

But what little info they’re providing sounds pretty good: the XNOTE S1 is a Core Duo laptop with a 15.4-inch WSXGA widescreen display, 5.1 surround With a 15.4 inch WSXGA (1680×1050) screen and excellent 5.1 surround sound, you have yourself a pretty powerful portable theatre on your lap.

There’s even a dedicated “Direct Media Experience Button” that shoots you straight into an interface designed for DVD, CD, or MP3 playback. Gaming should be a lot of fun with the ATI Mobility Radeon X1K GPU for all your 3D graphical needs.

They are dedicated media mode for DVD, CD and MP3 audio. Oh, and it comes in a snazzy black-and-white finish, too. Not too much else is known at this time, so we’ll just have to keep our eyes and ears peeled for some more Korean press releases to find out when, where, and how much the LG Xnote S1 is going to be.

BenQ’s new 6 megapixel DC-E600 with “Lens-Eye”

Durch die neue 2D-rotierende Linse erhöht sich die Zoomgeschwindigkeit signifikant. Panorama Focus (PF Mode) und andere technische Features unterstützen die hervorragende Bildqualität dieser einzigartigen Digitalkamera.

Erfüllt die höchsten Erwartungen an eine digitale Kamera Die exklusive BenQ Bedienoberfläche macht die DC-E600 zum idealen Begleiter.

Auf dem extra grossen, hochauflösenden 2.5″ LCD Farbdisplay lassen sich Fotos und Videos mit 30 Bildern pro Sekunde im AVI-Format (MPEG 4) in hervorragender Qualität betrachten. Darüber hinaus gewährleistet 6 MP Auflösung, sowie ein 3-fach optisches Zoom optimale Druckqualität.

BenQ’s with the PMA just around the corner we’re starting to see some cameras being announced in an effort to get the jump on the competition, and BenQ is joining the fray with their new DC-E600 shooter. It’s a compact 6 megapixel camera with a 2.5-inch LCD and 30fps VGA movie recording, but the real interesting part here is the 2D-Rotating “Lens-Eye” that does - something.

Wie hätten Sie es gerne ? Machen Sie ein Photo und schneiden Sie den Teil aus den Sie verwenden bzw. speichern wollen - oder ändern Sie Auflösung und Format direkt.

There is a Panoramic Focus as well, that also does some undescribed activity, and the better Quality for pictures but seems related to the Lens-Eye. We suppose there will be info as to these mystery features soon enough, but if anyone could fill us in that would be great.