drag2share: New Capacitive Touchscreens Recognize Your Gloved Fingers [Displays]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5853276/new-capacitive-touchscreens-recognize-your-gloved-fingers

It's old news by now, but capacitive touchscreens are a pain to use in the Winter because they can't detect your fingertaps through a pair of gloves. But SMK has improved the design of their 6.5-inch panels so that devices like car navigation systems can still be operated if you're driving with gloves on.

Instead of redesigning the displays from the ground up, the company added a new chip that improves detection sensitivity, while incorporating a new sensor panel that's better suited to filtering out noises and unwanted inputs as a result. When used with a bare finger, the new technology also facilitates the addition of a protective panel over the display up to 1.5mm thick, making them better suited for use in public kiosks. And because most users will only need to operate a touchscreen with gloves on when it's cold out, the panels will operate to temperatures as cold as minus thirty degrees celsius. Available up to eight inches in size, the new capacitive display technology will be first demonstrated at the Flat Panel Display show in Yokohama, Japan this week, with volume production starting soon thereafter. [TechOn! via Ubergizmo]

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drag2share: New Samsung Galaxy Note ad: freedom's just a stylus away (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/25/new-samsung-galaxy-note-ad-freedoms-just-a-stylus-away-video/

Ever wanted to soar majestically through the clouds? Good news, freedom from your earthly ties is a 5.3-inch display and S Pen away. All that and more in the Galaxy Note ad after the break -- though as we can attest, the whole creating beautiful landscapes thing isn't quite as easy as Samsung's simulated images make it out to be. No one ever said freedom was simple.

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drag2share: Freescale joins ARM A5 and M4 cores at the hip for performance and power savings

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/25/freescale-joins-arm-a5-and-m4-cores-at-the-hip-for-performance-a/

You may have noticed a trend recently -- pairing slightly less powerful cores that sip power, with more robust ones that can chug through demanding applications. NVIDIA's Tegra 3 will be packing an underclocked fifth core, while ARM's big.LITTLE initiative matches a highly efficient 28nm A7 with the beefy A15. Now Freescale is planning to use the same trick, but you won't find its asymmetrical CPUs in your next tablet or smartphone. Its platform, which marries a Cortex M4 to a Cortex A5, isn't meant to compete with the latest Snapdragon. These chips will find homes in factories and in-dash infotainment systems which have increasingly sophisticated UIs, but don't need to push thousands of polygons. Software development tools will land before this quarter is out and the first batch of silicon will be announced in Q1 of 2012. Looks like the era of "dual-core" meaning two identical cores has officially come to an end.

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drag2share: Use Quotation Marks Instead of + to Require a Search Term in Your Google Results [Google School]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5852461/use-quotation-marks-instead-of-%252B-to-require-a-search-term-in-your-google-results

Late last week Google changed the way one of their most useful (but lesser known) search operators works: The + (plus) operator. What's that mean for you? Next time you want to make sure any single word or phrase appears in your search results, wrap it in quotation marks. Here's a bit more detail:

When you enter a search into Google, the search engine doesn't just search for all the web pages containing your search terms; instead, it returns what it thinks is the best match based on hundreds of factors, and the resulting page may not even contain one or more of your search terms. To explicitly specify that you want the results to include a word, you used to be able to add the + (plus) operator to the front of a term (e.g., +hackintosh +lifehacker would ensure both terms were in all results). Now, rather than adding the + operator, you need to wrap the word or words in quotation marks (e.g., "hackintosh" "lifehacker"). (Most likely this change has something to do with Google+ and it's +mentioning convention.)

It may seem like a trivial operator, but if you've recently done a search for two obscure keywords, you've probably noticed that often, Google returns results that only contain one of the words—particularly if there aren't a lot of pages that actually do contain both words. You're a smart searcher, though, so when you entered both terms, you actually wanted the results to contain those words. In the past, you'd add the + operator to all words you wanted explicitly included in results. Now it's the double-quote.

You likely already knew that quoting a phrase would return results with that exact phrase, but it's also now the go-to for must-include single-word terms, as well.

via Google Operating System

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drag2share: Remember Netbooks? No One Else Does, Either [Factoid]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5853089/remember-netbooks-no-one-else-does-either

We'd already said that netbooks are dead, but it was maybe more accurate then to say that they were dying. Now, not only have netbook shipments precipitously declined, they're getting positively banged out by tablets. As they should.

There's no point to rehashing why netbooks don't provide a good enough consumer experience to justify their brief popularity. And even as they've improved dramatically—you can watch video on them now!—it's still very hard to find a compelling argument as to why you'd prefer one over a tablet. According to ABI Research:

Media tablet shipments surpassed netbook shipments this quarter, reaching 13.6 million units, compared to just 7.3 million netbooks. Netbooks had previously led the way with 8.4 million shipments in 1Q11, compared to just 6.4 million media tablets.

So say your goodbyes while you can, you lovers of netbooks. Unless you're too busy playing with your iPad. [BGR]

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