If you have a tablet and a kid at home then the chances are that they are often seen in the same place at the same time. In fact, the latest figures released by the BBC suggest that 75% of children in the UK have access to a tablet in their homes. Additionally, around half of primary school kids are said to use social media too. The rise in the use of tablets by youngsters...
Anyone who would love a new tablet but is a bit concerned about their privacy will be delighted to see that an anti-snooping tablet is in the pipeline. This device is being worked on by the same company, Silent Circle, that brought out the similarly privacy oriented Blackphone. Jon Callas is a co-founder of the firm and he said that they are going to be releasing a tablet “soon”. The Blackphone offers features such as extra protection when surfing the internet and the option of making encrypted phone calls and sending encrypted text...
Could tablets provide a solution for anyone with vision problems? It seems unlikely but researchers are working on a display that could do just that. The prototype tablet display that is being researched basically compensates for any vision problems the user might have. So how does it do that? Well, the software in the tablet alters the light that is emitted by each of the screen’s pixels. This is done based on the needs of the viewer taking into account their glass prescription. As well as this, there is also a plastic pin hole filter...
A new tablet from Nvidia has been launched, with the aim of enticing gamers to switch over to it. The Shield Tablet is powered by Android and is an 8 inch gadget that is capable of streaming games from a PC. It is the second handheld device to be released by the company but the first one to be offered outside of North America. The tablet can used to stream games from a PC equipped with an Nvidia graphic card over a home Wi-Fi system to the tablet and onto a TV screen. When games are played in this way they achieve a “near console”...
The latest Google product to get whispered about is a possible new tablet. What’s so great about a tablet, you may well ask. Well, this one is going to be able to take 3D images, according to the latest technology gossip. Reports of the new Google tablet appeared in the Wall Street Journal, with suggestions that 4,000 of the devices could be made within the next month or so. The tablet will work by using a couple of rear facing cameras, with advanced imaging software being used to convert the captured footage into 3D images. Google is...
How would you like to use a tablet made of electronic paper? This is the latest product to be shown off to the world by Sony. It is called – perhaps unsurprisingly -the Digital Paper tablet. The device is just 7mm thick and it is the touchscreen which is made out of electronic paper. The screen is A4 size and uses an E-Ink display. This allows users to write onto it directly and to make notes on any document they look at. The Digital Paper tablet has been designed with office use mainly in mind. It can be hooked up to Wi-Fi and is expected...
A new piece of research carried out by BBC Learning has revealed that parents are no longer fully aware of the dangers their children could come across on smartphones or tablets. It turns out that close to 20% of youngsters say that they have been upset by something they have seen on their mobile device. However, only half of that number of parents thought that their kids had come across something upsetting in this way. 90% of the parents who took part in the study said that had spoken to their kids about how to keep away from online dangers...
If you have ever worried about catching a disease off a dirty touchscreen then the solution is going to be out there soon. US company Corning is bringing out a new type of touchscreen glass which is said to stay free of bacteria and fungi for the lifetime of the device using it. The secret behind the glass – called Antimicrobial Gorilla Glass – is that it contains a substance called ionic silver. This is something whose germ fighting properties have been known about for a long time. Anti Bacterial Film Already Available At the moment,...
The cheapest tablet yet has gone on sale across the UK but will it be a success? The UniSlate 7Ci is the British version of the tablet which was designed in India and sold there as the Aakash 2. It has been made by the UK firm Datawind and is now up for grabs at a mere £30. Across in India, this budget tablet has been largely used by students, with its goal being to boost education by allowing more people to access the internet cheaply. What It Offers The 7 inch UniSlate 7Ci may be cheap but is it cheerful? It offers Wi-Fi connectivity,...
There are a few good reasons for making a trip to your local supermarket but is buying a tablet computer one of them? It might well be if Tesco’s new tablet takes off. The name for this computer is the Hudl and the details released so far make it seem like something which might actually be worth putting in your trolley with your potatoes and Pot Noodles. The Tesco Hudl is going to come with the very latest version of Android n it, an HD screen, expandable storage space and a respectably powerful 1.5 GHz processor. The Tesco brand isn’t...