Word: touchscreens
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...MAIL Ever wish you could carry your desktop PC with you--without giving yourself a hernia? One solution is the new AirSpeak FLAIR ($1,985), a flat, lightweight touchscreen peripheral the size and shape of a cocktail tray that connects to your computer wirelessly. The FLAIR displays whatever is on your desktop, so you can check your e-mail or surf the Web from the living room or the boardroom. And when you're finished, you can serve martinis...
INVISIBLE ORGANIZER It's not as powerful as a Palm or as colorful as a PocketPC, but Xircom's REX 6000 rex.net $149) goes where the others can't: inside a laptop. The tiny touchscreen PDA is really a PC card, the kind that can slide into the side of portables. If you don't use a laptop, you can buy the optional cradle to fill REX with content from the Web or synchronized schedules from Microsoft Outlook. REX is right for inveterate networkers who travel light and don't want to miss a single digit...
Many companies showed off Internet appliances--devices that browse the Web and send e-mail, without the complications of a full-fledged PC--but the Gateway Connected Touch Pad ($599) drew the biggest crowds. It has a touchscreen, so you can pick it up like a notebook and write directly on its screen with a stylus. While it's easy to use, it's also technologically cutting edge: a low-power Crusoe chip gives it extra-long battery life, and instead of Microsoft's Windows it runs the crash-proof operating system Linux. Needless to say, Bill Gates...
...immortalize you. That's why their firm, based in Creve Coeur--it means Heartbreak--Mo., has the ambitious name Forever Enterprises. Besides providing the usual burial plots and cremation urns, Forever helps the living remember the dead by producing biographies of the deceased that can be viewed on touchscreen kiosks at the cemetery. That means the Cassity brothers may have found a way for people not to dodge mortality but to shape it to their liking...