Many tech companies, such as Sony, are testing flexible display prototypes, but few have actually demonstrated a useful purpose for their bendable screens. Toshiba wants to change all of that with their flexible display that zooms in or out, depending on the direction you bend the screen. They demonstrated their new flexible LCD panel display on the Computex showroom floor this week in Taipei.t In the following video, you can see a demonstration of Google Earth actually zooming in and out on demand, just by bending the screen. As the demonstrator bends the screen up, the image of the earth zooms in, and as he bends it back, the earth ge...

Synaptics Touchpad At this very moment, I am tapping away on my trusty little netbook, hoping to make a few dollars on another article about Computex. One can never have too many articles about cool gadgets, right? At any rate, before I am finished typing, I will inevitably brush the palm of my hand on the touchpad ever so slightly. It will be a light brush, not a banging or pounding, but it will be enough to move the mouse pointer to an unintended location. Suddenly, pressing PgDn or Backspace will have a completely undesired consequence. Many software programs offer solutions to deal with those pesky touchpads.  You can disab...

2010 Computex Computex is one of the world's largest computer and technology conventions, held at the Taipei World Trade Center in Taipei, Taiwan. This year's event starts on June 1 and concludes June 5 2010. The first day of Computex has been dominated by tablets, with several manufacturers unveiling their "iPad killers". The notable tablets include: The Asus Eee Pad, which will be a 12-inch tablet with Intel Core 2 Duo CULV processors and 10-hours of battery life. This first tablet will run Windows 7, while another promised tablet will reportedly run Google Chrome OS. The MSI Windpad 100 - Another Windows 7 tablet with a te...

Best Netbooks For the past three years, netbook sales have been through the roof. In these rough economic times, people who needed portable computing may have seen the lower-priced netbooks as alternatives to higher-priced full-powered laptops. Those sales numbers are now starting to drop, but there is still no denying that netbooks have peaked the interests of many consumers. Whenever I carry my netbook around, I inevitably get comments about its size. Some stop me to ask how much I paid for it and where they can get one. I wish I had time to give them the full story on netbooks, both the good and bad, but usually I do not. Fortuna...