Tag: Touchscreen

Your Hotel Room In The Future May Have Touch-Sensitive Walls
If you are tired of the same old hotel room experience, you will be in for a treat in the near future. Unless we go to a resort or hotel that has just been built, hotel rooms have pretty much been the same for as long as I can remember. We often think about getting away to a tropical paradise near t ...

Message Mirror Optimizes & Bundles Message Communication
Have you ever gotten the feeling that the "future" is getting ever closer? What I mean is that our science fiction dreams are no longer as 'out there' as they were 50 years ago. The gap between reality and the future seems to shrink more and more with each day that passes. Technology has a way of in ...

Order Dinner From A Touchscreen Menu Embedded In Your Restaurant Table
We've all experienced it. We've gone to a restaurant for a quick lunch or dinner between work projects, and the server takes a long time to take our order. By the time we get our food, we either have to eat it super fast, or just get it packed to go. Could there be a more optimized way to order dinn ...

Japan To Launch Ultra-Thin Car Dashboard Touchscreen In 2013
Just when we thought cars couldn't become any more tech-infused (after hearing about Audi's new exterior OLED surface wrapping technology), we now find out about car dashboards becoming ultra-thin touchscreens. It's a new technology that could make car dashboards a whole lot more useful, and relay i ...

40 Foot Touchscreen Gallery Helps Visitors Find New Artwork
As we reported yesterday, Rio de Janeiro is the first city to implement QR codes into their sidewalk design. It's an effort to help tourists find new information about the city and its history without cluttering the city with ugly, bulky signs. It seems information is about to take over our immediat ...

Double-Sided Transparent Smartphone Presented By Docomo
What's so appealing about a transparent smartphone? Well, it could be that it allows for a whole lot of new features. First of all, applying touch to both sides would make the user interface a new breed. There are of course a whole lot of positive effects when a smartphone goes transparent. I have w ...

Transparent Touchscreen Vending Machine Remembers You
Things are moving fast now. Just a year ago, we were introduced to the possibilities of a transparent touchscreen. Now it seems the concept is in full motion and being implemented in a row of different devices. I must admit that I had my doubts about the usefulness of transparent touchscreens. Scien ...

Holographic Laser Touch Surfaces Are The Next Gen Touchscreens
It might be that soon touchscreen solutions will be a technology of the past. We want more and more touch enabled surfaces, and the glass oriented touchscreen solution just doesn't allow for a scalable upgrade it seems. We want our stuff plastered everywhere, and we want to be able to control it thr ...

Touch Sensitive Interactive Video Flooring That Changes Everything
This touch sensitive interactive video floor is so exciting. We've seen touch sensitive, interactive flooring before, like in a small space where kids can jump and a blotch of color splashes on the screen where their feet hit, but this takes that experience to a whole new level. Imagine having this ...

Real Transparent Smartphone Introduced By Taiwanese Company
As soon as the topic "next gen smartphone" comes up, people eventually start talking about transparent smartphones. It seems this is the inevitable progression of things. Samsung (and a few other companies) are working on flexible smartphone designs, so why wouldn't a transparent smartphone design b ...

Finally A 100-Inch Touchscreen Desk For The Office
You might remember my article about the ultimate office solution in the form of a touchscreen desk concept design. If it would have been real, I think Apple would have a serious headache right now. Unfortunately it wasn't, and our reality became as ordinary as it always is. But if you think Apple is ...

Touchscreen Desk Already Exists & Comes With A $7,000 Price Tag
There was an insanely positive response to my touchscreen desk article yesterday. It seems people really like the concept of having their very own hub from where they can do everything. The concept as a whole is of course not new in any way, but it's the realization itself that might be a little tri ...

Gymnasium Floor Changes For Each Sport With A Touchscreen
This futuristic-looking gymnasium floor isn't a concept design or something to look forward to in the future, it's already being used. This is definitely one of the coolest technologies I've seen all week. As I'm sure you know, on a traditional gymnasium floor, sometimes the lines can get confusing. ...

Flexible OLED Screen From Futuba Might Impress Us More Than Samsung’s
You might remember Samsung's reveal of their flexible OLED screen gadget, Yuom, from about a week ago. It was at an event during CES 2013, which impressed a lot of people. The screen, which could very well become the center point of future smartphones, was considered one of the highlights of CES 201 ...

Touchscreen Desk Is Your Ultimate Interactive Office Solution
How would you envision your ultimate office device? Would it be a gadget or an entire desk solution? I guess it depends on what your needs are. I'm pretty sure that fax machines, bulky screens, telephones and pretty much everything considered '90s technology would be gone. Steve Jobs once said that ...