At CES this year, Tactus demonstrated the first tactile touchscreen implemented on a standard android tablet. They use a technology called “micro-fluidics” to raise and lower the buttons. Not necessarily game changing as it only offers a preset tactile keyboard but is still really cool nonetheless. Here is an older video from Tactus describing this technology. No hardware partners announced but they expect to ship the first tactile touchscreen phone later this year.
So after what seems like forever, Apple has pretty much won all of the patent infringements that they claim Samsung has done. Samsung claims they have come up with ideas, but Apple says contrary. Continue reading
Woot woot! Looks like the Nexus tablet is available for order. This is probably the best tablet for the money available right now. The 8gb is priced at $209 and comes with a $25 credit for Google Play. It runs Jelly Bean (4.1), uses a 7 inch IPS display, and is quad core! Best of all, it has a battery life rated at 8 hours with active use. Asus is the maker of this tablet and it is rumoured that a 10 inch model will come out later this year. Let the tablet wars begin!
The popular iOS retro camera app, Instagram is now available on Android for free after all this waiting! It’s available for devices running Android 2.2 and higher, but is currently not available for Android tablets as of yet. Anyone planning to download it for their device?
If you’re an Android user, you’re in luck if you want to have your 3DS AR Cards handy with you all the time! A developer has released a 3DS AR Cards app on the Android Market for those who have a 3DS and wish to have those nifty AR Cards with them. Its also convenient for those like myself, who are prone to lose pieces of paper like the 6 AR Cards that come with the 3DS.
Recently I picked up the Samsung Galaxy S Captivate (i896) smartphone at a local Rogers Wireless store. Once the box is opened and you look at the phone, the first thing you notice is the gorgeously large 4″ Super AMOLED screen that Samsung chose to use for this phone.
Tiger Labs has made a proof of concept DS emulator which is pretty neat! The only thing is that the games run really slow on this emulator. They anticipate to be ready in 2012. Some improvements can be found in making new processors and phones that will be able to keep up with the intensive floating-point calculations that DS games use. Now lets see how long it takes someone to make a 3DS/PSP2 emulator!
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