Posted 10/22/08 at 07:30:12 PM by Alex Castle

Pay attention, mobile-makers; Microsoft is showing off a new technology called SideSight at the User Interface Software and Technology conference in Monterey. SideSight allows for a mobile, touch-screen device with a twist: you don’t have to touch the screen.

Instead, the phone is controlled by moving your fingers in the space on either side of the device—essentially expanding the interface real estate greatly over a traditional touch screen. By moving your hands around the outside of the prototype SideSight device, objects and images on the screen can be rotated and manipulated, and text and pages can be scrolled through.

SideSight detects motion with an array of ten infrared proximity sensors lined up along each side. The prototype also features a smaller, traditional touch screen, allowing a user to write on the screen with a stylus in one hand, while moving the “page” by moving the other hand beside the device, simulating the way people write with a pen and paper.

Is this technology just a gimmick, or are we seeing the future of mobile devices? Give us your thoughts after the jump.

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Posted 08/22/08 at 03:21:31 PM by Pulkit Chandna

Intel is currently busy renovating its Classmate notebook by adding a few cool features. The diminutive notebook will receive more than a trivial facelift as the revamped version will feature a touch-screen and tablet functionality. That is not all, the notebook will now feature an Intel Atom – it currently employs a Celeron M with a primeval clock speed of 900 MHz. The Classmate PC is primarily designed for students, especially in emerging countries. The Classmate PCs that run on different Linux versions or Windows XP Professional are produced and marketed by OEMs and not Intel.

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