Inteset has designed a 17-inch widescreen touchscreen that is designed to let you run all of Windows Media Center with just your fingers.
The Julia All-in-One Touch Extender comes with a built-in 80 gigabyte hard drive, CD/DVD drive and TV/FM tuners, and, although it is designed more to run off a seperate Inteset MCE PC running as a media server, it will function as a standalone MCE PC. The HD is said to be for “temporary storage”, which might mean it isn’t really supposed to be a DVR, just for pausing Live TV.
Inteset has modded MCE to have an onscreen keyboard/remote control when necessary, since MCE’s controls rely a lot on the remote. The touch interface looks excellent, and they should consider adapting it for UMPCs as well. All in all, I’m very impressed. Check out the article at Talk About CEDIA, which has great screenshots.
I’ve long wanted a laptop with a touchscreen. Years ago, I had this great Sharp device that had a 10-inch laptop form factor, but ran Windows CE. In some ways, it was a lot like an early, underpowered Tablet PC (although its ten hour battery was spectacular), and ever since, I wished I had a laptop with basic touch capabilities. Nothing as precise or spectacular as a Tablet, just something that would let me use my finger instead of a Touchpad. Once in a while, I’ll reach up with a finger to drag an icon around, and remember that I can’t do that anymore. I with some mainstream OEM would give it a shot.
(via Endadget)
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