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Sony Pocket Reader PRS-350 looks pretty but has problems
Tim Carmody has an in-depth review of the Sony Pocket Reader PRS-350 at Wired. He starts by looking at the touchscreen feature, which is neither capacitive (like the iPhone) nor resistive (like the...
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Morning Roundup: Children and touchscreens, Amazon good for literature,...
Researchers Find Children Play with Touchscreens More than Traditional Toys (Teachers with Apps) Researchers find children play with touchscreens more than traditional toys – The following claim was...
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Why won’t Parker do a stylus?
As avid TeleRead readers will know, I’m an onscreen handwriting nut. I’m also a writer. And like many writers, I’m almost fetishistic about the tools of the trade. The writing instruments, paper (or...
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Rotring meets the digital pen challenge?
As a follow-up to my earlier TeleRead piece on why the premium pen manufacturers aren’t meeting the onscreen writing challenge, it’s good to report that at least one firm does seem to have stepped up...
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Pen brands starting to get their stylus act together
Remember a while ago I ranted about the premium pen brands who had so far shunned the stylus market? Well, looks like manufacturers are lining up to make me eat my words – or drink my own ink. Cross,...
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My cheap stylus problem might finally have been solved for good
It takes a geek or a Scot, or better still, both at once, to obsess over cheap touchscreen styluses, and I plead guilty to one charge and embrace the other. And I reported on this issue a short while...
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Corning’s Project Phire ready to phire up your screen?
Corning, whose Gorilla Glass is the default standard for many touchscreen tablet and smartphone devices, has been seeding the media with hints about its new Project Phire lately, which apparently...
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Touchscreen issues with Amazon’s new Kindle Fire 7
I’m enjoying my new Amazon Kindle Fire 7 tremendously, but I am finding one or two issues with it. One of the most persistent that I haven’t been able to hack around is a touchscreen problem. Maybe I...
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My ultimate geek stocking filler: My Tchibo 3-in-1 Touchpen
One little extra gift from my parents looks likely to stay with me a very long time after this Christmas: My new Tchibo 3-in-1 Touchpen. For any mobile device user, a stylus is practically mandatory...
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Pixel Eyes promises higher sensitivity, waterproof touchscreens
If you’ve ever tried to use a touchscreen with wet fingers or read an ebook in the rain (and yes, I have), then this could be for you. Japan Display Inc., the Japanese government-backed JV merger of...
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