Matias Tactile One, SlimOne hands-on (video)

We already covered the announcement of the new Matias tactile-keyboards but couldn’t resist descending into the show floor in order to get a quick hands-on with the Canadian-made kit. The USB-powered boards contain a Bluetooth module and a physical button (with a blue LED) that you can switch between typing on your desktop and wirelessly to your device. The “Island-Style” SlimOne replicates the look and feel of the current Apple island-keyboard, but with scissor keys, which pleasantly resist your fingers. The ’90s style Tactile One forces your hands to readjust back two-decades, but the mechanical board was a joy to use, with no lag between typing and it appearing on a compatible phone. After the break we’ve got a short video where we learn that retro keyboards can send people into such a frenzy that they forget to type the word “movie” correctly.

Sean Buckley contributed to this report.

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What Are Magnet Links, and How Do I Use Them to Download Torrents? [Explainer]

Soon, popular torrent site The Pirate Bay will no longer host torrent files. Instead, it will only offer magnet links. Magnet what now? You may have seen the term “magnet link” before, but if you haven’t used one, here’s the lowdown on what this change means for you as a BitTorrent user. More »


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Hands-on with Asus’s follow-up to Transformer Prime, tablets, Padfone



Asus floated some big plans this year at the Consumer Electronics Show for merging categories of devices in a number of ways. Following in the Transformer Prime’s footsteps is the tablet hybrid T700 Series, along with two 7-inch tablets and an elusive oddball of a gadget, the Padfone. We visited the company at CES to check out all these items.

T700 Series tablet hybrid

Asus’s Transformer Prime has stirred the emotions of PC hybrid enthusiasts over the last couple of months, but Asus has no problem with making the tablet and keyboard dock look like old news. The 10.1-inch T700 series Android 4 model will have a Super IPS+ display at a 1920×1200 resolution, and a 1.3GHz quad-core Tegra 3 processor running Android 4—slightly faster than the Transformer Prime’s 1.2GHz.

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