I went to Corning’s booth at CES 2012 because I was hoping they’d let me whack a tablet’s screen with a hammer. Unfortunately, Corning wasn’t doing that demonstration when I arrived. What I saw instead was even better. Corning had a 84-inch multi-touch screen on display. It was protected by Gorilla Glass, but that wasn’t more »

With the race to make everything touch screen and multi-touch, the budget laptop market is likely the next to make the jump as not everyone afford a Microsoft Surface. Provided over the weekend, Tech Review Source got several leaked images on an in development Acer showing off dual 15″ touch screens – no physical keyboard more »

E-reader, meet tablet PC. The Entourage Edge is the world’s first dual book device that combines a full color Android powered tablet with an e-reader. It’s WiFi enabled and has 3GB of usable memory along with an SD card slot and USB port. It also comes with Bluetooth and Wacom capabilities. The screens rotate and more »

Here comes the Magellan RoadMate 1700, the 7-inch touch screen WVGA GPS device. With that giant touch screen, you’ll get Roadside Assistance, AAA TourBook, and maps of Canada, Puerto Rico, and the United States. The RoadMate also has a video-in jack so you can connect whatever device you would like to the large 7-inch screen. more »

Canon, not to be outdone by itself in announcing the VIXIA HF S11, is also announcing a number of new digital cameras and printers. The line-up includes six new digital cameras, including a new flagship PowerShot G-series, and four new printers, including two All-In-Ones with built-in Wi-Fi. It’s a barrage of products that can make it a bit hard to digest at first, with every product coming to market within the next two months.

One of the features that makes the iPhone easy to use is the ability to create conference calls or place calls on hold or mute without needing to know any special key codes. All you have to do is touch the big button on the touch screen and you’re all set. Today, snom introduced a new VoIP desk phone, the snom 870, which incorporates a touch screen. The screen is 4×3 inches in size and is primarily aimed for businesses, however I can see something like this easily finding its way into the home.

While LG is currently is currently teasing us in the US with the next Chocolate, it is busy teasing those over in Warsaw with a fantastic-sounding concept phone. The phone looks to combine the best features of some of the newer Samsung and Sony Ericsson, and even some cues from the iPhone 3GS. The phone, more »

Just before Apple launched the current line of MacBooks, there was a lot of speculation as to what a glass trackpad could bring to the machines. There were mock images of MacBooks with a second screen rather than a trackpad, with the second screen harboring the dock. Those rumors have obviously proven to be false, more »

Samsung has recently announced two new touchscreen based phones, they are the S5230 and S5600 — both of which are expected to come at an affordable price point being targeted at the mid-to-lower tier market. As for the features, the S5230 has a 3-inch full touchscreen WQVGA display, 3-megapixel camera, built-in FM radio, Bluetooth, USB more »

Ever since the movie Minority Report came out in 2002, large touch screens have been compared to the infamous one in the movie. This year at CES, Intel showed off a rough prototype touch screen that involved projecting an image from the rear onto a piece of glass. We don’t have many details other than what we saw with our own eyes, but it seemed that the piece of glass was rigged with some capacitive sensors between two pieces of glass, and it was powered by Intel’s new Core i7 chip.