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Feel Fabric on a Touchscreen With Tanvas

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Feel Fabric on a Touchscreen With Tanvas

Tanvas has an intriguing demo at CES 2017, where it shows off surface haptics technology allowing one to feel the texture of different materials through a touchscreen.

Seen in the shape of a repurposed Nexus 9 tablet, TanvasTouch technology simulated a number of surfaces, including wood, cobblestone and grass. Another demo allows one to drag their finger through a virtual pool with a pebble floor, and a partnership with apparel maker Bonobos offers the chance to check the difference between cotton and corduroy fabrics by rubbing the touchscreen.

How does Tanvas touchscreens work? Reportedly the result of 10 years of research at Nortwestern University, the technology involves “real-time control of the electrical forces between your fingertip and the touch surfaces.” Essentially the display has a TanvasTouch layer on top of the touchscreen acting as an electromagnet. The magnet physically pulls the tips of users' finger as they move across the screen, creating a "sense" of touch.

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The AOC AGON "Extremely Curved" 35-inch Monitor

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The AOC AGON

AOC announces a 35-inch gaming monitor-- the AOC AGON AG352QCX featuring an "extraordinarily small radius of 200mm" the company claims is "the optimal curve radius for gamers."

The monitor carries an MVA panel in 21:9 format. It offers 2560 x 1080 resolution and 178-degree viewing angles, as well as 100% sRGB colour gamut and 4ms response times. The native refresh rate is 200Hz, while Adaptive Sync and FreeSync compatibility allow for automatic refresh rate adjustments between 30 and 200Hz.

Other gamer-friendly features include a low-input lag mode and "AOC Shadow Control," a gamma profile able to reveal what is lurking in darker areas of the screen. As for eye protection, Flicker-Free and Low Blue Light technology help reduce fatigue levels, and one can adjust lighting, presents and other settings via QuickSwitch keypad controls.

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The SPUD Pop-Up Display

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The SPUD Pop-Up Display

Customers wanting display both large and portable might soon have a solution with the Spontaneous Pop-Up Display (SPUD)-- a collapsible projector-and-screen combo one can open and close like an umbrella.

When collapsed the SPUD is around the size of a large hardback book, and it opens into a 24-inch 720p display similar in look to a photography light dffuser, with the projector at the back of the unit. Connectivity comes through USB and HDMI, while the internal battery promises up to 3 hours of use on a single charge. Maximum brightness reaches 785 nits.

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Logitech Presents C922 Webcam

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Logitech Presents C922 Webcam

Logitech announces a successor to the popular C920 webcam-- the C922 Pro Stream, a webcam able to record 1080p resolution video at 30fps or 720p at 60fps, with dynamic background replacement via Personify software.

Designed for "serious" streamers, the webcam is compatible with broadcast software such as OBS and XSplit, which is comes included in the package in the shape of a 3-month premium license. This allows users to overlay video of themselves on top of the game stream.

In addition the C922 also offers automatic low light correction, sharp autofocus, flicker lighting adjustment and a pair of omnidirectional noise canceling microphones for stereo audio with no-drop streaming.

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IDC: Improved Q2 2016 for PC Monitors

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IDC: Improved Q2 2016 for PC Monitors

According to IDC Q2 2016 PC monitor shipments total 30 million units in Q2 2016-- a 4.9% Y-o-Y (or 4.6% Q-o-Q) increase the analyst describes as better than previous forecasts.

However the analyst also predicts the global market will decline at rates of around -3% Y-o-Y from 2018 through 2020, even if currently EMEA sees "solid" Y-o-Y results, the result of growing mobile device adoption at lower price points. As for full year 2016, IDC forecasts shipments will reach 118m, a decline of -12.7%.

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