Princeton follows Shuttle's minimalist lead with 19-inch touchscreen

Shuttle may have been the first out of the gate with this minimalist design (presumably OEM, and likely only a sign of things to come), but that's not keeping Princeton from doing its own thing with its new PTB-TMW19B tablet display, which just got official for Japan today. While the exterior's identical to the Shuttle, the Princeton model takes a slight dip in resolution to 1440 x 900, although the company makes up for that somewhat by including a stylus and some handwriting recognition software. Otherwise, you can expect a 5 ms response time, an 850: 1 contrast ratio, and even a pair of built-in speakers. Look for this one to set you back ¥128,000 (or just under $1,200) when it hits Japan later this month.

[ramin @ Jun 10th 2008 9:04PM]

i really think apple should come out with something like this but multitouch like iphone

[spass @ Jun 10th 2008 9:06PM]

Like this, sans pen.

[Mile @ Jun 10th 2008 9:12PM]

No way Apple would get it right. They'd make it all proprietary and lock it down and you wouldn't be able to load 3rd party programs on it. We need HTC or Samsung to do something like that.

[fred @ Jun 10th 2008 10:56PM]

wouldn't that make it a "me too copycat" device?

Sorry, but these guys beat Apple to the punch so they are not allowed to make one of their own.

Isn't that how it works?

[flux @ Jun 11th 2008 4:30AM]

yet there are copycats of apple products that spring out daily

[Kurian @ Jun 10th 2008 9:21PM]

I was under the impression that these things were some kind of relatively common commodity. 1200$ ???

[oakman1000 @ Jun 10th 2008 9:23PM]

OK, this is how it will go...


Oooh touch screen! Pick up pen. Five minutes of child like writing on the screen. Arm gets tired. Back aches. Back to mouse.

Looks nice though.

[deyanimay @ Jun 10th 2008 9:37PM]

from the look of it you may be able to lay it down flat

[Peter @ Jun 10th 2008 9:25PM]

Holy shit! A levitating stylus!

[Weeliano @ Jun 10th 2008 9:33PM]

Heh heh! That's what I thought too! If it does levitate, it will be bloody cool looking.

[YpoCaramel @ Jun 10th 2008 9:44PM]

Wacom has been doing drawing touchscreens for a while, but this is probably inspired by the iPhone multi-touch revolution.

[deyanimay @ Jun 10th 2008 10:28PM]

or windows 7

[phez @ Jun 11th 2008 12:50AM]

Cintiqs cost as much, if not more, and are just monitors. This is a fully fledged computer.

[phez @ Jun 11th 2008 12:52AM]

oops, misread on the original shuttle post. they're all monitors :p

[kyphros @ Jun 11th 2008 1:47AM]

Bruce Campbell called, he wants his chin back.

[TareX @ Jun 11th 2008 2:35AM]

Looks like many people are preparing for Windows 7.

Anyway, I don't think that would be ergonomic or comfortable. You see, dealing with a touchscreen phone requires the same effort of pressing a physical button i.e. raising a finger and sliding it around.

But raising an arm constantly to type on a touchscreen requires the use of the shoulder muscles, which would get tiresome really quickly. Unless this is for a tablet mini-laptop, I don't think this technology should be in desktop computers.

[rock99rock @ Jun 11th 2008 9:27AM]

isnt the new hp 22" touchsmart COMPLETE PC going for around the same price? Of course, no "Levitating Stylus" included..