Word: touchscreens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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While the questions of Datamatch were for the most part playful and entertaining, Yan had a bone to pick with question number 12, which asked which was the surveyors’ most prominent feature—eyes, hair, glasses, acne, or touchscreen...
...from assured. Mountain View, California-based Plastic Logic, whose reading device is still a year away from launch, was set to announce a number of partner agreements today, including USA Today and the Financial Times. Though still in prototype, that e-reader is thinner than Kindle2, features a touchscreen the dimensions of a sheet of paper and can render virtually any typeface...
...another for more than a decade, but people weren't lining up to buy them until Amazon launched its Kindle a little over a year ago. The Kindle wasn't cooler than any of the other e?readers out there - the first-generation version doesn't even have a touchscreen - but it offered one advantage key to saving publishing: every device can connect to a high-speed data network, virtually anywhere, and download books and periodicals easily and cheaply. I've grabbed books on demand from my bed, bath and beyond, and that more than compensates for the gadget...
...Silicon Valley stealth start-up just north of Apple. Everything in the reader it's developing will be made of plastic, from its non-LCD screen to its transistors. Recently I got a look at a Plastic Logic prototype. Like the iPhone, it's little more than a touchscreen, 8.5 in. by 11 in. (22 cm by 28 cm), linked wirelessly (like the Kindle) via a high-speed cellular network to a store that will support on-demand transactions of under a dollar. There are just two problems. Because everything about Plastic Logic's device is new, right down...
...downtown San Francisco, at Adobe, a company whose software dominates the production side of the publishing industry. Chief technology officer Kevin Lynch held in his hands a mobile Internet device made by a Chinese company called Aigo. This model, already on the market in Asia, has an easily readable touchscreen. But more interesting than how it looked was the software it was running - Adobe...