Double-faced Touch Panel: Exhibited at Tokyo

Touch screens was a hot thing when it was released, but the thrill died down after their presence was seen almost everywhere in the form of ATMs. The inventors knew something extra was needed to bring them back to limelight. Teraokaseiko Co. Ltd. has displayed a cool touch panel display that can be used from either side of the panel. The double-sided touch screen was made by attaching a resistive touch panel to both sides of a transparent inorganic EL panel that had been developed by Teraokaseiko. The double-faced touch panel was part of the exhibitions at the Sign & Display Show taking place at the Tokyo Big Sight (Aug 28 to Aug 30, 2008).

The inorganic EL panel coems with a pixel count of 256×120 and has an orange monochrome display. The double-side view allows users to use the touch screen from both sides without blocking a part of the display from view. Since the screen can be used from both side, the interactive uses of the panel also increases. Apart from allowing two people to use the touch screen at the same time from both sides of the panel, the double-side touch screen offers other features, such as the pinching motion made famous by the revelotutionary iPhones (tapping and sliding touch movements are also accepted).

Canon EOS 50D: 15.1 MP camera

Canon is pulling out a new big bomb in its digital camera arsenal with the release of the EOS 50D Digital SLR Camera with 15.1MP resolution and the new DIGIC 4 image processor. Expected to be out in October, the body is going to cost around $1400 or in a kit version with Canon’s EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM zoom lens, its gonna cost around $1600.
A lot of features are offered in this powerful camera. Canon is bringing out the new "Creative Auto Mode" for giving users "more creative flexibility to make image setting adjustments," which means that the users can make changes while in auto mode to things like aperture and shutter speed as the camera menu on the back screen brings out the options in more easy to understand terms. The back screen, BTW, is three-inches and designed to help consumers make use of functions like the face detection mode's up to 35 individual forward-looking faces support. Canon claims that the 15.1-megapixel CMOS APS-C size image sensor is improved by the use of "newly designed gapless microlenses over each pixel to reduce noise and expand sensitivity up to ISO 12800." This sensor, in conjunction with the image processor, reportedly is capable of 6.3 frame-per-second (fps) continuous shooting capability (for bursts of up to 90 Large/Fine JPEGs or 16 RAW images on a UDMA CF card). Continuing on down the long features list, the EOS 50D s levels of noise reduction during high-speed shooting, conducting peripheral illumination correction, analyzing the brightness of subjects and automatically adjusting dark images, outputting HDMI for display on a HDTV and offering support with two sRAW recording formats, sRAW1 and sRAW2. RAW settings can be used "in Basic Zone as well as Creative Zone shooting modes."