And the rumors of the October 14th Apple notebook event appear to be true. Apple will hold an invitation only town hall event in San Francisco at 10am Pacific this upcoming Tuesday, featuring what is likely to be a major revision to their portable Macintosh line. The invite sent out today, pictured above, out and out says what the event will be about; a departure from the otherwise furtiveness of Apple’s prior event invitations.

With the recent problems bugging the iPhone’s touchscreen display, it’s about time manufacturers figured a way to solve that nagging problem. Thankfully, the boffins at Sharp have created a solution with optical sensors embedded directly into the LCD’s surface. The current prototype is exactly the same size as Balda’s touchscreens, the main supplier for Apple’s more »

Dr Macenstein recently shared his views as to why there won’t be a touchscreen iPod (aka, an iPhone without the “Phone”). He cites the difficulty of having to look at the screen just to control the device, instead of using it by touch. However, Apple does indeed own a patent where the device’s physical controls more »