Science-fiction epic "Avatar" soared to a new global box office record, taking in 1.85 billion dollars and sinking "Titanic" to become the biggest earning film of all time, figures show.
"On Monday, January 25, 'Avatar' officially passed 'Titanic' to become the highest grossing film in history at the worldwide box office," 20th Century Fox studios said in a statement. [Read more...]
Multitouch screens are all the rage these days, and 3M's new 22-inch LCD multitouch screen looks to bring a lot to the party. While most multitouch screen can handle a couple of fingers, this bad boy can recognize all ten of your fingers at once for some serious multitouching.
Of course, there's not a whole lot of software out there that's designed to recognize all ten of your fingers at once. But eventually you've gotta assume it'll get here. So if you like planning ahead with these sorts of things, this is your monitor. Look for it to cost $1,500 whenever it's released.
Kent Displays has been working on its no-power reflex LCD for a while now, but now the company has sprouted a new arm — Improv Electronics — and that arm is clutching the new Boogie Board LCD Writing Tablet.
It's not a tablet computer meant to take on Apple's upcoming offering or HP's Slate. Instead, it's a clip you can write on and erase on its pressure-sensitive display, and it only uses power — from a watch battery — when it needs to erase. It's good for 50,000 erase cycles, the company says. [Read more...]
As a crowd of tech companies roll out tablets at the upcoming CES 2010, lurking underneath will be Apple's alleged iSlate tablet. Rumors swirl everywhere, and now here's yet another concept of what the actual Apple tablet might be like. That is, if it even exists, or if it will be actually be introduced on January 26 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.
We're hoping this 10-incher is the real thing. It trumps many of the other design concepts we've seen, differing in its absence of any buttons whatsoever. Steve Jobs hates buttons — so this design seems to have a ring of truth about it. Could this be close to the actual iSlate we might see at the end of this month?
You can already use your iPhone to control your iTunes on your computer using Apple's Remote app, but you've never been able to use your iPhone as your TV's remote control. But that's about to change.
A company called L5 Technology is releasing the L5 Remote next month, a $50 infrared dongle paired with a free app that turns your iPhone into the ultimate universal remote. The app lets you drag and drop buttons around on the screen to set up just how you want it to work for your various devices. The dongle doesn't require batteries, and it looks pretty sweet, although we'll have to see how it actually works before getting too excited.
