Awesome Touchscreen

This forthcoming device aims to make learning the piano easier and more fun than ever. The Polaro has an ultrawide touchscreen that provides instruction and feedback directly above its 88 keys. Its makers plan on offering apps for lessons, games, recording music, and more. Pricing isn’t firm yet but estimated at $2800 to start. You can reserve one now for $100.

This unique keyboard lets you extend your desktop onto its top half. It has a 12.6″ ultrawide (1920 x 515) touchscreen and connects to computers or mobile devices via USB Type-C. Compatible with Windows, macOS, and Android devices. Comes in 98-key scissor-switch and 71-key mechanical versions. It looks kind of familiar to us.

Bring your shower into the 21st century with this slick gadget that combines a touchscreen Android tablet, Bluetooth speakers, lighting, a fogless mirror, and UV-C sanitization lights. Its base unit holds securely with double-sided adhesive pads, while you can easily remove its water-resistant display for recharging.

Home arcade company Arcade1up has created a tabletop gaming system that lets you play digital versions of board games like Monopoly, Scrabble, Trivial Pursuit, and more. It will come in 24″ and 32″ versions, both with a touchscreen with tactile feedback, and Wi-Fi connectivity for downloading games and other content.

Among the many countless TVs, smartphones, and accessories at CES 2019, Japan’s mui turned up with something different. Their smarthome interface appears to be a simple piece of wood, but it conceals LEDs and a touch panel to display useful information and control devices.

Future Interfaces Group shows off Electrick, an intriguing way to convert virtually any sort of object into a touch-sensitive surface using conductive materials or sprays, and connecting an array of electrodes. It’s not as precise as a touchscreen, but it can sense X/Y positions.

A 23.6″ full HD Android computer designed specifically for playing board games. It works with finger touches, game pieces and cards, and can store digital versions of physical board games. A $99 reservation gets you an early bird system for $250 off the MSRP.

Display technology company Barco demonstrates its a rear-projection video wall, which uses lasers and custom sensors to allow it to detect an unlimited number of touchpoints, and lets users view and interact with content in an expansive virtual desktop.

While it’s not going to replace your Pizza Hut server quite yet, we’re really digging the UI that Chaotic Moon Studios developed for this interactive table which lets you drag items onto your pizza and pay with your smartphone.

DigInfo reports on a futuristic interface developed by Fujitsu which allows for accurate touchscreen-like interactions and gestures on paper and other surfaces. The company plans on commercializing the tech by 2014.

The new Harmony Touch universal remote offers a smartphone-inspired, customizable touchscreen display, and supports swipe gestures to scroll between screens. Controls up to 15 devices.

Hark back to a time before touch screens, when we all relied on the cursor to do our bidding. Mike Mak’s Big Big Cursor works as well as your finger while preventing smudges and scratches.

The rumor mill is abuzz about the upcoming iPad 2, but we think we like the six minutes of funny in this “review” of the new gadget from YouTube user Exkild best; it features an astounding 27″ display.

We’ve seen a few button add-ons for playing games on touchscreen devices, but the Classics could be the best yet, because they can be used in a variety of button configurations.

After all the rounds of Rock Band, we’re already used to playing guitars without strings. The touchscreen Kitara is a string-free performance instrument. Doubles as a MIDI controller.

Inspired by the Finnish tradition of building snow and ice sculptures during their long winter, a team at Nokia has created the world’s first ice touchscreen using digital projection technology.