You’re an early adopter, right? Remember that LCD HDTV you bought to replace that faulty, wooden, 27-inch console television? Remember the HD-with-built-in-HDDVD-player TV you bought to replace that? Remember the HDTV you switched back to, wisely purchasing a separate Blu-Ray player? Remember the 3DTV you bought six months ago, flippantly disregarding the complete lack of content and criminal cost of 3D glasses?  Good times. You’ve torn your wallet all sorts of new orifices, haven’t you? Well, don’t let it rest just yet. Toshiba, fancy folk as they are, are dropping a glasses-free line…

Behold the tale of two inseparable interspecies buddies, a monkey and dog (only Japan, right?), whose friendship is torn asunder by a big move, and subsequently mended by the magic* of Toshiba products. I swear this isn’t a plug for Toshiba – I honestly just really enjoy anything with a monkey in it. And the shot of the car driving away with the dog house on it made me choke. With laughter or tears, you ask? That is for me to know, and I will take the secret to my grave. *”Magic” (c) copyright 2009-2010 Apple Inc. [Via Trendhunter]…

Oh dip. This is a sultry unit. Toshiba is celebrating its 25th anniversary by dropping a true iPad killer into the fray. Billed as a ‘concept product’, a limited quantity of the Libretto W100 are being released into the wild as a test to see if consumers will dig it. Hell, I, for one, dig it. Just look at this thing. With a 62gig SSD, 2gigs of RAM, dual 7-inch screens at 1024×600, Bluetooth, WiMAX, and, perhaps most importantly, Windows-goddamn-7, the Libretto W100 sounds a lot like the future of mobile computing we were all hoping the iPad was going to be. This is a real computer, running real, grown-up…

Finally. Thank you, Toshiba. I’ve always found that iPhone pinching gesture to be so unintuitive and weird. I mean, yeah, we’re all used to it now and it’s totally second-nature to most people, but to say it was an intuitive experience is a bit of a stretch. Speaking of stretching and pinching and stuff, Toshiba has developed a prototype that as far as I’m concerned makes a bit more intuitive sense: a bendable LCD display, controlled by – yes – bend input. Announced at SID 2010, the panel can zoom in and out by bending accordingly – away for zoom out, toward for zoom in. Simple, right? Totally cool. With…

Man, gestural interfaces are really starting to gain ground, aren’t they? Apparently, touch was never enough. Toshiba’s been working on something pretty cool. Yeah, that’s it, just cool. No customary ‘rad!’ or ‘awesome!’ from me. S’just cool. I’ll explain momentarily. The AirSwing is an interface that uses a webcam to superimpose the image of the user onto the screen, that they might wave their hands all over some content and make magic happen. I was under the impression they were just using a really, really crappy high-gloss monitor in the video for a full three minutes. Now, this is sort of puzzling….

Toshiba is working quickly to launch their new line of tablet computers that will hopefully be available in North America later this year. If the model isn’t ready by the end of the year, the tablet is expected in early 2011. According to a report by Reuters, the tablets will offer Windows 7 and Android. The Windows 7 model is rumored to include higher-end features but the Android model is closer in similarity to the Apple iPad, which has been hugely popular since it’s release. The tablet is expected to feature a 10 inch screen and each model will range in cost – prices are unknown as of yet. “We definitely…