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News.blog: Perish the Click Wheel?

News Everybody loves the iPod Click Wheel, but apparently the iPod of the future needs more buttons. Apple has filed a patent for an iPod-like device that has a touch-sensitive bezel around the display and can toggle between several different operating...

27 October 2006, 11:12

News.blog: Apple working on clickless Click Wheel?

News Red Herring has spotted an Apple patent filing that appears to cover a method for operating an iPod Click Wheel without actually having to touch the device. The idea seems to be that you would hover over the traditional Click Wheel and make...

28 July 2006, 10:03

Photos: Reinventing the scroll wheel

News The company, perhaps best-known for its iPod Click Wheel, actually receives the bulk of its revenue from designing and building touchpads for laptop PCs. In the company's labs, Synaptics is demonstrating a regular keyboard that comes with an iPod...

23 August 2006, 11:01

Microsoft reels in Xbox 360 defect

News Microsoft said on Thursday it is giving customers free retrofits to a wireless racing wheel with its Xbox 360 game console after hearing of malfunctions in a wheel component. The company said it was informed of about 50 incidents worldwide of a...

24 August 2007, 11:20

Apple releases its first multi-button mouse

News Dubbed Mighty Mouse, the new £35 pointer has a 360-degree scroll wheel and can be programmed to recognise a click on either the left or right side. Wozniak said he has appreciated the two-finger scrolling option on the Mac's latest trackpads, so he...

3 August 2005, 11:05

Photos: Technology of 3D movies

News A Korean company called Masterimage uses a high-speed spinning wheel to polarise light so that, in combination with appropriate glasses, separate views are sent from the projector to the audience's left and right eyes.

Tags: lens, eye, views, frame

6 November 2007, 9:02

Photos: Prepping for the X Prize

News Kilborn, Australia, comes the Tilting Vehicle, which is a four-wheel automobile that has the stability of a larger car and the efficiency of a motorbike. FuelVapor Technologies of British Columbia developed a three-wheel car called the Alé.

Tags: mpg, weight, air, car

28 March 2008, 9:29

Talk to your car with new tech

News Obvious safety concerns and legislation in various countries are forcing car makers to look for a solution -- and one may be on the way with new technology that lets people keep their hands on the wheel and 'tell' their gadgets what to do with...

24 January 2006, 10:31

Images: Top ten extensions for Firefox 2

News Use your scroll wheel to browse through open tabs, or control tab switching via mouse gestures. One neat tip: clicking the scroll wheel on a thumbnail magnifies it. To use the potential features of the next version of Firefox today, install the...

17 November 2006, 10:40

Photos: RoboCars of 2057

News This enables programmable tensiometry and fluid movement while ensuring efficient energy transfer to the in-wheel electro-static nanomotors," according to Mazda. Three independent wheel systems and 'electro-active polymer actuators' acting as...

Tags: japanese, car, america, powered

1 November 2007, 8:44

News.blog: Will Apple make a touch-screen iPod?

News The standard iPod click wheel would be replaced with a virtual on-screen click wheel. Apple is going touch-screen crazy. Around seven patents have recently been filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office on behalf of Apple for touch-sensitive...

16 March 2006, 10:34

Microsoft unleashes new breeds of mice

News It will also bear Microsoft's familiar Tilt Wheel technology, which permits horizontal and vertical scrolling through pages. The announcement of the new products comes less than a week after Microsoft said it would license three of its hardware...

5 April 2006, 10:12

Video iPod: From rumour to reality?

News The new iPod, according to Apple Insider, will be reminiscent of the 60GB iPod photo but thinner, with an iPod nano-esque small click wheel. The smaller click wheel makes room for a larger display. With Apple confirming it will expand its product...

6 October 2005, 12:13

US Army speeds high-tech tools to soldiers

News For instance, the Marcbot (multifunction agile remote-controlled robot) is a small, four-wheel vehicle -- about the size of a large Tonka truck -- that carries a video camera to let soldiers scan terrain for improvised explosive devices.

16 August 2005, 10:39

Photos: The insides of a Roomba

News Cracking the case requires that you remove quite a number of screws: four around the edge of the underside, two by the center wheel, four near the battery cavity, two more under each of those, one in each wheel well, and three near each well.

Tags: detect, credit, edge, switch

9 January 2008, 11:48