Years later, Google and Microsoft came out with competing multi-touch tablet operating systems.
When you remove the LCD screen, you can use as a full HD multi-touch tablet high-spec of about 950g 4mm thinnest part, lightness.
So how to get to a multi-touch tablet?
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Microsoft is reportedly working on development of Windows 8, which will be better suited for touch screen tablet devices.
Called Mountain Lion, it won't be as big a change as Windows 8, partly because Apple already has integrated a lot of touch gestures and tablet-type features into the Mac using the touch pad, and has given no indication it plans touch screens.
The three new devices include the Latitude 10-inch touch-enabled tablet, the Latitude 6430u Ultrabook that brings leading design to the boardroom, and a touch-enabled OptiPlex 9010 All-in-One desktop helping people interact with technology in more intuitive ways.
Some are even wondering if Apple will introduce a touch-sensitive table tablet that riffs off the iPod Touch's touch-sensitive interface.
The Wii U has a touch-screen tablet controller called GamePad and a TV-watching feature called TVii.
But a touch-screen tablet computer--like the one Intel's Schwaderer was trying to describe--would be a neat fit.
The PlayBook, a 7-inch touch-screen tablet RIM will release in the next few months, relies on this multicore concept.
Sinofsky did also, of course, describe the Surface as a touch-first tablet device, but also emphasized its utility and productivity.
Yet now, they are available in a touch-screen tablet and are pervasive.
Growth continues to be strong, with DisplaySearch forecasting over 72 million touch screens for tablet PCs in 2011, and over 100 million in 2012.
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In April it began selling the iPad, the first successful touch-screen tablet computer, and created a market for an entire new category of consumer electronics.
Whispers that Apple was preparing to unveil a touch-screen tablet computer dominated much of the chatter inside the Las Vegas Convention Center during CES 2010.
It is a digital pen for on the move that can be used with a touch smartphone or tablet, without danger of it being lost.
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We also recently launched the Latitude ST, a 10-inch Windows 7-based touch-screen tablet designed for vertical markets such as education, finance and healthcare in November of this year.
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Today's demo used a computer-connected HDTV and a capacitive-touch-enabled tablet.
Atlanta (CNN) -- Imagine a near future when a single touch on your tablet or smartphone will start your coffee maker, lock your doors, turn on (or off) the lights and open a window.
It isn't the first time we've heard of Alcatel's One Touch Evo 7 tablet, but the company's using today as an opportunity to spill new details and announce a souped-up version of the slab.
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Arthur Zang, a 24 year-old Cameroonian engineer, has invented the Cardiopad, a touch screen medical tablet that enables heart examinations such as the electrocardiogram (ECG) to be performed at remote, rural locations while the results of the test are transferred wirelessly to specialists who can interpret them.
Apple exceeded the guidance for its margins in the fourth quarter, a nice add-on to the sales of its slim touch-screen tablet the iPad, which increased by 3 million to 7.3 million in the fourth quarter and the increasingly globally popular iPhone, which increased 86% from the year-ago quarter.
While Windows 8 will work with a mouse or touch pad and a keyboard, it will be heavily oriented toward tablet-type touch-screen navigation.
The Microsoft Surface is a tablet with a keyboard touch cover meant to live somewhere between a laptop and a tablet.
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The invention can provide a 3, 4, and 5 dimensional touch screen or graphics tablet .
Nintendo once again faces the prospect of 3rd party developers scoffing at their specs and not wanting to either modify their game to have scaled down graphics or use touch controls on the tablet.
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In a demonstration before a group of reporters, various company reps dangled the tablet by the Touch Cover.
Lenssen does not plan to port his games to laptops, desktops or video game consoles, noting that he prefers the tablet format and touch-screen.
Another prototype from DoCoMo aimed at Nihon's commuters, the i beam concept tablet forgoes any touch at all, allowing the user (once they're at the specified 'sweet spot') to navigate around apps and screens using your eyes.
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Play in solo mode with touch on a mobile phone or tablet, or use the Atlas controllers for a 2-player experience on the big screen.
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