Posts Tagged by display
Amazon acquires Touchco, a touch screen start-up
| February 4, 2010 | Posted by Ray Morrison under amazon, Apple, Electronics, iPad, tablet, Tech News |
Amazon has reportedly acquired Touchco, a New York start-up specializing in touch screen technology in an effort to play catch-up with the Apple iPad.
The New York Times reported, the touch-screen technology is developed by Touchco and is substantially cheaper than the capacitative touch screens used for the iPad, their cost is at around $10 per square foot.
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Remote Display Lets You Use Camera from 500 Feet
| December 1, 2009 | Posted by Jessica Moreno under Apple, Electronics, Gadgets, iPhone, iPod, Tech News |
The Pro-View wireless camera display squints its eye up to the viewfinder so you don’t have to. The two-part gizmo uses a video camera to peek into the optical viewfinder of a DSLR and beams the image up to 500 feet where it can be viewed on a 640 x 480 LCD screen, similar to the resolution on the last generation of DSLR cameras (around 3K pixels).
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monome turned into DIY low-res Twitter display
| October 19, 2009 | Posted by Abren Michaels under Electronics, Gadgets |
In an ideal world someone would read this and send me a monome of my own to play with, but the button-encrusted control surfaces are in short supply (and not too cheap). Since controlling music isn’t the sole use of a monome, but still the task most people connect them with, some owners are pushing forward their DIY projects showing that a monome can be pretty much anything you have the imagination for: here, Robert Böhnke repurposes his as a low-res Twitter display.
For the uninitiated, a monome is a board of backlit rubber buttons laid out in a grid; they range from early, compact 8×8 models up to huge boards with hundreds of keys. One of the most common uses is for controlling music, either directly playing the monome (hooked up to a software synth or music package) as an instrument, or for triggering samples.
However, the open-source nature of the hardware and software means that the sky is pretty much the limit for canny developers, hence Robert Böhnke’s Twitter app. Not especially useful, perhaps, but still awesome.
In an ideal world someone would read this and send me a monome of my own to play with, but the button-encrusted control surfaces are in short supply (and not too cheap). Since controlling music isn’t the sole use of a monome, but still the task most people connect them with, some owners are pushing forward their DIY projects showing that a monome can be pretty much anything you have the imagination for: here, Robert Böhnke repurposes his as a low-res Twitter display.
For the uninitiated, a monome is a board of backlit rubber buttons laid out in a grid; they range from early, compact 8×8 models up to huge boards with hundreds of keys. One of the most common uses is for controlling music, either directly playing the monome (hooked up to a software synth or music package) as an instrument, or for triggering samples.
However, the open-source nature of the hardware and software means that the sky is pretty much the limit for canny developers, hence Robert Böhnke’s Twitter app. Not especially useful, perhaps, but still awesome.
