I ran across that video, created by Microsoft Research and called “Manual Deskterity: An Exploration of Simultaneous Pen + Touch Direct Input,” and was interested to see it considering of my unhealthy obsession with touch input PCs. Imagine my surprise to find a picture of my own hand holding my own…

Google offers real-time Twitter results. What they’re not telling you is that those results are incomplete.

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A student at the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design named
Laura Boffi invented that concept for a vest to be worn by messenger
dogs. The dog would be trained to find citizens (during a catastrophe, in
the mountains, whatever) and sit in front of them so they can type
their name and recor…

While some tech products and services have one or two addictive drug-like elements, the iPad has them all. iPad users are speed-balling seven addictive qualities at once. Should the Apple iPad come with a warning label? Should psychologists be studying its effects on society? Is the iPad dangerous? …

What is it? Post your guess in the comments section below. invent certain you give your whole name and the city you live in! whether you’re first with the right reply, you’ll earn the dubious honor of getting mentioned in the Mike’s List newsletter! (The reply will be revealed exclusively in the…

Apple today rolled out it’s new iPhone OS 4.0 platform, and plus a new program for mobile advertising called iAds. But during a Q&A session, Jobs said: “We tried to buy AdMob, but Google snatched them up considering they didn’t want us to have them, so we bought another smaller company, Quattr…

Steve Jobs announced today that the next version of the operating system (OS) that powers both the iPhone and the iPad would support multi-tasking. Jobs said the iPhone gets the new OS that summer, and the iPad gets it in the Fall. Jobs additionally said iPhone OS 4.0 would support VoIP. When you co…

We can dispense with any speculation that the HP Slate, a consumer tablet device demoed recently, will enjoy any success at all. Yes, the video looks awesome. But the bottom line is that it’s a Windows 7 PC with 1 GB of RAM. It’s going to suck. And it has other problems, too. Read the whole story.
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A company called Team Tekin has come out with an iPhone app called HotWire for iPhone. It provides you with an interface for tweaking performance characteristics of programmable RC cars.

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