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Understand the real human multitouch technology

We complain a lot about our computer, like how it takes up to a minute to turn on, applications take more than few seconds to load, it crashes once in a while, and e-mails take forever to be delivered.

Now, let's imagine how all that would be if we did it ourselves. It takes most of us half an hour to get out of bed and get ready to begin with. Personally, give me like 45 minutes.

With this in mind, a design group called Multitouch Barcelona has carried out the Natural Interaction project to explore the communication between … Read more

Awkward timing for solid-gold USB drive

Given the current economic climate, this may be the only USB drive that actually gets more valuable as time goes by. It's an 18-carat solid gold USB drive that screams, "Stock market dive, what stock market dive?"

The limited-edition drive from Super Talent Technology is a member of the Pico-C line, which is water-resistant and supports data transfer speeds up to 30MBps. The $599 bit of storage swankness comes with an 18-carat solid gold keychain and a serialized certificate of authenticity. It's wrapped in a black velvet jewelry box, and text or a logo can be … Read more

Solid-state drive gets tiny

Solid-state drives aren't always faster than regular hard drives, but they sure can be tinier.

The smallest regular hard drives are the 1.8 inchers that Toshiba has been making for ultracompact laptops. On Wednesday, Super Talent Technology announced two SSDs that come in a significantly smaller form factor: .85 inch and 1 inch.

The new SSDs use Intel Z-P140 NAND Flash-based SSD technology and employ the older parallel ATA (PATA/IDE) interface, as opposed to the current and popular SATA interface used in regular-size SSDs. Both offer rather modest read and write speeds of 40 megabytes per second … Read more