Here’s a sub-1KG Intel powered Ultrabook built using carbon fiber.
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Asus Transformer Book, Intel/Windows 8 11.6″ Convertible Laptop/Tablet
Posted by – June 4, 2012
It’s a bit heavier than an Ultrabook, it may come with a hard drive or SSD and DVD drive in the keyboard dock.
Asus Taichi convertible 11.6″ dual-screen Intel Windows 8 Laptop/Tablet
Posted by – June 4, 2012
This is the big announcement from Asus at this Computex. They add a screen, which significantly reduces the battery life (if both screens are in use at the same time). This announcement sounds to me like a usual type of announcement for Asus, last year it was the Asus PadPhone. I think none are going to be popular. The form factors just seem to be wrong, price too high, power consumption too high, usability non-seamless. Intel/Microsoft are just not the right combination for success anymore.
Up this post with my Linux on ARM videos on Slashdot
Posted by – June 3, 2012
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[Videos] Linaro engineers talk about the status of Linux on ARM
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“Some of the worlds best developers work at Linaro optimizing the future of Linux on ARM. In this 4-hour video series several of them describe software solutions for the upcoming ARM big.LITTLE architecture (ARM Cortex-A15 and ARM Cortex-A7), demonstrate how Linaro Android 4.0.4 runs twice as fast as stock Android 4.0.4 on the TI OMAP4430 Pandaboard, talk about the future of Android, unify the ARM bootloader, combine multiple ARM SoCs into one Linux Kernel for ARM. Canonical works to support ARM Servers, Mark Shuttleworth talks about the opportunity that ARM constitutes for Ubuntu on Laptops and Servers. The CTO of Linaro talks about the next billions of ARM Powered devices that they are working to optimize Linux for.”
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In a few hours, I start video-blogging 50+ videos here at Computex until June 10th. ARM’s press conference at Computex starts just a few hours from now.
Patrik Klinger Program Manager of the ST-Ericsson Snowball development platform at Linaro Connect
Posted by – June 3, 2012
Amber Graner interviews Patrik Klinger at Linaro Connect.
Mark Shuttleworth at Linaro Connect
Posted by – June 2, 2012
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical talks about Ubuntu on ARM and Canonical at Linaro.
Android at Linaro, the future, by Zach Pfeffer
Posted by – June 2, 2012
Here’s 19 minutes with Zach Pfeffer, Linaro Android Tech Lead, talking about the future of Android.
Linaro improvements to Android 4.0.4 performance on the Pandaboard TI OMAP4430 platform
Posted by – June 2, 2012
Bernhard Rosenkränzer who is the Android Toolchain expert at Linaro shows how Linaro’s version of Android 4.0.4 runs about twice as fast as stock Android 4.0.4 on the TI OMAP4430 Powered Pandaboard.
Nicolas Pitre at Linaro Connect
Posted by – June 2, 2012
Nicolas Pitre talks about how he works at Linaro on ARM powered Linux projects, including something regarding the upcoming big.LITTLE projects while he’s sight impaired.
Ricardo Salveti shows Unity 3D working on the ST-Ericsson A9500 Snowball platform
Posted by – June 2, 2012
It’s the OpenGL ES port that they have been working on for quite a while.
Amit Pundir and Abhishek Paliwal of the Linaro Android Team
Posted by – June 2, 2012
Amit Pundir of the Linaro Android Team and Abhishek Paliwal of ST-Ericsson talk about their work on Android at Linaro.
Tizen running on the ST-Ericsson Snowball A9500
Posted by – June 2, 2012
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect
LG software engineers at Linaro Connect
Posted by – June 2, 2012
Category: Exclusive videos, Linaro Connect
Headmounted augmented-reality game and brain activity robot remote controller
Posted by – June 1, 2012
Noritsuna Imamura Director of the OESF lets me try some of his latest projects which are the headmounted Android on Pandaboard computer system that has augmented reality application that turns real people into shoot them up characters and that allows for brain activity based robot remote-controlling.
Hydis launches new touchscreen technology: On-Cell Touch for LCD
Here is the press release:
-South Korea-based TFT-LCD panel maker Hydis Technologies, a subsidiary of Taiwan-based E Ink Holdings Inc., today announced that they will add on-cell touch screen panel (TSP) technology to their LCD portfolio of offerings.
“With on-cell touch, we are able to combine the best LCD in the world with a touch technology that offers better performance at lower cost.”
Hydis is able to offer the TSP technology with on-cell touch, which provides the customer a slim and lightweight form factor, with the added benefit of lower cost versus traditional touch technologies. The touch functionality is embedded within the display itself rather than as a separate component atop the display. This results in more precise touch with better optics due to reduction in parallax errors. In addition, LCDs with this touch technology consumes less power and can take advantage of cost reductions in manufacturing due to the reduction of a glass layer and the alleviation of the need for a separate touch panel supplier.
Hydis will begin offering the on-cell technology to the smartphone and tablet markets beginning this month. Hydis is perhaps best known as the inventors and providers of Fringe Field Switching (FFS) technology, which is featured in many smartphones and most tablets currently in the market. FFS LCD provides a wider viewing angle and color gamut, consumes less power and offers better high ambient readability than traditional LCDs. Hydis’ publicly announced customers include Dell, HP, Lenovo, Kobo & Siemens, among others.
“Hydis’ FFS technology is preferred by Tablet and Smart phone makers worldwide,” said Johnson Lee, Chairman of Hydis Technologies. “With on-cell touch, we are able to combine the best LCD in the world with a touch technology that offers better performance at lower cost.”
Is this new touch screen technology really better and cheaper than capacitive? Hydis’s Fringe Field Switching (FFS) technology is already in use by for example the iPad and other popular LCD tablets. Does it support multi-touch? Does it support pen input? Is it really more precise than capacitive? I look forward to try it out. Perhaps Hydis will show it off at Computex next week? I’ll be video-blogging 50 or more videos from Computex next week so check back for those.
