Sony Vaio

Updated Sony Vaio P Series touchpad received additional, GPS and accelerometer. Touchpad integrated into the frame of the screen to the left and right sides: the left functions as a mouse, right - as usual notebook touchpad. Deserves special attention accelerometer: not that he can turn the laptop into a vertical position to comfortably read text - and it provides another interesting thing. More images after the break...

When viewing web-pages the device responds to the slopes to the right and the left link to this page forward and back. In addition, the new Sony Vaio P will be equipped with more powerful processors, Intel Atom Z540 or Z560. Among other features: 2 GB DDR2 SDRAM, 64 GB SSD, graphics card Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 500, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, stereo speakers and microphone, camera Motion Eye, 2 USB-port. New items arrive on the market in 5 colors: orange, green, pink, black and white. You can buy any of them in June this year.

HP Reveal MultiTouch Consumer Tablet PC

When it comes to innovation in Touch technology, HP seems to be doing a wonderful job. There Touch Smart PCs are quite popular and now they have extended that innovation to the laptops with the Hp TouchSmart tx2 notebook PC. The notebook is especially designed for people on the the go and it makes working a lot easier thanks to the touch innovation.

In the new notebook PC, users can easily work and organize there digital files such as music, videos, pictures etc just by touching the screen using the fingers. Whether user is browsing a website or going through the pictures, all that can be achieved easily by moving the fingers. With the use of “capacitive multi-touch technology”, it can take input from more than one fingers and can also accept gesture like rotate, arc, drag and single and double tap. With the use of a Digital Ink Pen, users can easily use the laptop as a Tablet PC and can write, draw and sketch on it. The handwriting will also be converted digitally. It is powered by Amd Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core processor and has a 12.1 inch screen.

BenQ S6

BenQ has unveiled a new stylish MID aimed at the busy professional users who needs Internet on the go, the new UMPC from BenQ has touch enabled 4.8 inch TFT screen with a new sleek Free-Surf user interface which makes surfing websites a breeze, add to that ability of accelerometer to scroll through websites and handy different uses, under the hood it packs Intel Atom 800 MHz processor, 512 MB RAM and 2GB SSD, it supports easy and quick web browsing out of the box.


Features of BenQ MID S6:

Intel Atom 800 MHz
Touchscreen 4.8 inch TFT Screen 800 x 480 resolution
512 RAM
2 GB SSD
802.11 b/g Wi-Fi
3.5G cellular
Bluetooth 2.0 EDR
MicroSD Card Reader
1880mAH Battery
1 Mini USB 2.0 port
Accelerometer
Stylus Input
Windows XP

Kinect.

Microsoft announced their much hyped Project Natal at this year’s E3 and officially renamed it as Kinect. It will be having multi-array microphone, two 3D depth sensors and one RGB camera along with motorized tilt mechanism for capturing body movements, it will also follow you anywhere in the room while keeping focus. With Voice Recognition and Gesture Recognition technology in place Kinect is sure to impress everyone when it releases this November.

Amazon has already started taking pre-orders for Kinect.

Apple releases Bluetooth Magic Trackpad and Battery Charger

Apple just released a new multi-touch capable wireless trackpad, named as Magic Trackpad. It sports same features as those found on Magic Mouse multi touch surface or on the Macbook’s touchpad and is available at the U.S. stores at a price of $69 USD, however it is expected to be available on Indian stores by September 2010.


Magic Trackpad is covered with a wear-resistant glass surface and features the same sculpted aluminum design as the Apple Wireless Keyboard. Click, Scroll, Swipe, Rotate are some of the basic functions that can be performed on this giant trackpad. Its large size makes it more comfortable to replace the mouse experience for serious computing. The trackpad is powered by batteries and offers Bluetooth connectivity, maintaining.

Another announcement made today is the Apple’s own battery charger which can be bought separately. The charger is capable of saving power when the batteries have been charged fully and comes with a pack of six batteries.

Its interesting to see that Apple already having a multi-touch capable Magic Mouse for their desktop line-ups which was released few days ago are now offering yet another input option for their consumers and that too at the same price. Do comment what would you opt for – Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad?