Augmented reality can bring a book to life by pointing a smartphone or tablet camera at coded objects on a page and viewing the results on the smart device's screen. Magik Book has created its own spin with brochures that sync with a tablet and launch digital content when a page is turned.
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Flat touch-enabled surfaces that offer virtual keyboards when you need to type, and other functions when you don't, made a commercial appearance a couple of years ago when Lenovo launched the ambitious Yoga Book. Today, the company's Jeff Meredith gave an early look at the Yoga Book 2 at Computex.
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Back in 2014, Sony released a new tablet designed to allow professionals to read and write documents without using real world paper. The Digital Paper tablet had an eye-friendly E Ink display and long battery life – but was pricey. Now Sony Japan has announced a smaller version called the DPT-CP1.
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Just days after we saw the first Chrome OS tablet arrive, there's another new form factor for Google's desktop operating system. Enter the HP Chromebook x2, a detachable Chromebook that follows the template laid down by Microsoft's Surface Book and gives Chrome OS fans another option to pick from.
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At an education-focused event in Chicago, Apple has announced its latest tablet: a new, low-cost 9.-7-inch iPad, with added support for the Apple Pencil. At the same time, it's updating its Pages, Numbers, and Keynote apps for iPad to work with stylus input as well.
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The biggest mobile show of the year, Mobile World Congress or MWC, is getting underway in Barcelona, with Huawei one of the first to unveil its new products. There's no sign of the company's 2018 flagship phone yet, but Huawei has shown off a premium Windows notebook and new Android tablets.
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Touch typing on the flat surface of a smart device can be somewhat challenging. Zack Dennis came to the rescue in 2012 with a chorded keyboard concept called ASETNIOP. Now that keying system has launched for iOS and Android tablets.
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It's been a relatively quiet year for tablets, but some of the biggest names in tech – including Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, and Amazon – still launched devices in 2017. These are our picks for the best tablets out of the ones released over the last 12 months, at a variety of price points.
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Samsung is refreshing the Galaxy Tab A, its family-focused tablet first released in 2015. The new model keeps the 8-inch screen, and beefs up the memory, screen resolution, cameras and battery.
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HP unveiled a new 2-in-1 convertible today at Adobe MAX in Las Vegas. The ZBook x2 is designed to give digital artists, designers and other professionals the power they need to make full use of the Adobe Creative Cloud software suite, as well as other resource hungry creative applications.
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