Back in April we heard that Bridgestone was getting into the e-paper biz and it looks like they are still making progress. The company’s all-color touchscreen e-book reader is based on what Bridgestone calls Quick-response Liquid Powder and is about 5.8mm thick.

It features a 13.1-inch touch-sensitive e-paper display with 4,096 colors that has a refresh rate of about 0.8 seconds. It also boasts mobile phone connectivity. The biggest news here is that the entire thing is designed to bend. Everything from the circuit board, touchscreen, and housing.

The Nokia N900 might have just been released, but hot on its heels is its successor, the Nokia N920 Internet Tablet. It showed up at the Nokiaport.de forums.

The photo appears to be real and we know that the device will feature a 4.13″ capacitive touchscreen display in a thin body. And yes, no sign of a physical keyboard. We don’t have any info on its release date, but don’t expect it for awhile. We will likely see it at Mobile World Congress 2010.

Sharp has been busy showing off the NetWalker at this year’s Ceatec.The NetWalker is a smaller-than-usual notebook sporting a 5 inch touchscreen, Ubuntu OS, USB, Wi-fi, 4 GB memory, microSD expansion and a battery that will last you up to 10 hours.

The Sharp NetWalker is set to be priced at about 44,800 Yen (or $500) and is expected in Japan by the end of October. We can only hope that it shows up elsewhere too, for those who love small.

Philips has unveiled two new touchscreen handsets, the X806 and the C702 which will most likely drop in China soon. The pair look pretty nice. The X806 is just 14mm thin, comes with a 3.5″ TFT display at 240 x 400 resolution, a 5-megapixel camera, Bluetooth connectivity, integrated FM radio, 47MB of internal memory and a microSD memory card slot. No 3G listed sadly.

Next is the CDMA 1X Philips C702 handset, with a 1.3-megapixel camera, a 3.4″ QVGA display, Bluetooth connectivity, GPS navigation, 70MB internal memory and a microSD memory card slot.

Word on the street is that RIM is working on a new BlackBerry. One that will feature not just a touchscreen display, but also a slide out QWERTY keyboard. Such a device would definitely give users the best of both worlds and it adds flexibility.

The touchscreen would offer ease of use, while a QWERTY keyboard makes composing emails and text messages a breeze. At the moment this is just a rumor, but it wouldn’t surprise us at all.

It seems like most of the smartphones and feature phones that we see lately feature touchscreen of one sort or another. Some touchscreens are capacitive and some are resistive and what you can use to control the screen, be it a finger or a stylus, depends on the type.

Samsung has unveiled the world’s first mobile display driver IC with embedded touch screen control functionality. The driver controls a capacitive touchscreen that supports soft touch and multi-touch functionality.

Pure Digital has just unveiled the Sensia, which is loaded with features and nice design. The style is futuristic, not retro and we love the 5.7-inch touchscreen (640 x 480). It boasts DAB and FM tuners and is also equipped with an 802.11g module to pull radio streams from the web and stream other media from networked PCs / storage.

Some other specs include two 3-inch full-range drivers, RF remote, optional rechargeable battery and a 3.5 millimeter socket for connecting to your other devices. Users can also access a bunch of applications for weather, news, Picasa or social networking.

Stealth Computer has unveiled their latest notebook, the NW-2000. This one is a rugged hybrid laptop/tablet based around Intel’s 1.06GHz Core 2 Duo. When I say tough, I mean Mr. T tough. Fool. It features a 13.3-inch sunlight viewable resistive touchscreen and MIL-STD-810F, shock & vibration compliance.

Some other features are: 2GB of RAM (maximum 4GB), 160GB shock-mounted hard-drive or optional SSD, and a spill-resistant keyboard. This baby can handle a drop from 91cm onto a wood-covered concrete surface 26 times in a row and still function. How’s that for tough?

We have to hand it to Motorola on this one, this is one sexy phone. The ROKR ZN50 is a music-centric, full touchscreen slider with a 3.2-inch panel (427 x 240 resolution), automatic screen rotation, shake to switch tracks, 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, Bluetooth stereo headset support, SRS WOW HD audio tech and a battery that will provide 30 hours of audio playback.

You’ll also get a T-DMB TV tuner, 4GB of inbuilt memory, a microSDHC card slot, 3.2 megapixel camera, an e-dictionary and support for 7.2Mbps HSDPA. Now for the bad news. It looks like the phone is being reserved for the Korean market.

NXZT’s Sentry 2 Touchscreen Fan Controller looks like it belongs in the dashboard of your spaceship. No buttons here. It’s all touchscreen interaction. If you have a spare 5.25″ drive bay, you’ll want to put this in it.

The Sentry 2 lets you control up to 5 fans with the option for manually tuning individual fan speeds or letting the automatic controls take over to correspond to a specific temperature. An alarm will sound to alert the user if the temperature exceeds the preset amount and stores saved settings even after it is turned off.

Jabra is well known for its Bluetooth headsets. Now the company has released the Jabra Go 6400 and Pro 9400 Bluetooth headsets that come with a charging dock with a touchcreen display.

The 6400 features a standard Bluetooth range and looks exactly like a typical Bluetooth headset from Jabra, while the 9400 looks more like a receptionist’s headset that you can wear around your house at up to a 450-foot range.

The successor to the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, the Nokia 5530 XpressMusic was unveiled at the Nokia Connection event in Singapore. It’s the third S 60 5th edition handset for the company, after the popular Nokia N97 and 5800 XpressMusic. The 5800 XpressMusic is a touch phone, sporting a 2.9″ 16M color display with a resolution of 640 x 360 pixels.

It features a 3.2 megapixel camera with LED flash, along with an accelerometer sensor and proximity sensor for precise pictures. Since it’s a music phone, it has powerful stereo speakers and a 3.5 mm standard audio jack. Surprisingly, no GPS unlike Nokia’s other touch phones, which is probaly to keep the price down.

Jointech has announced their new JE100 ebook reader, a 7-inch device that uses an LCD touchscreen instead of an e-ink display. Based on Windows CE 5.0, the Jointech JE100 will not only boast Mobipocket Reader, MSReader and eReader support, but also likely play back video and audio files together with viewing and editing Microsoft Office documents.

Inside it features a 400MHz CPU, 128MB of flash memory and 64MB of RAM. Transflash cards up to 4GB in capacity can be used to boost storage, and it rocks two USB ports: one a host, for plugging in external peripherals and the other a slave, for hooking up the JE100 to a computer where it presumably mounts as an external drive.

SilverPac has announced their SilverFrame Advanced Digital Picture Frame (ADPF) at Computex 2009, and this is no cheap photo display, like you are used to seeing in bargain bins. The ADPF runs Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R2 and supports Windows SideShow and Windows Live FrameIt for displaying online content on its 10.1-inch 1024 x 576 touchscreen.

The frame will not only show local photos, play video and stream music from across a network, but it can sync with your calendar, show emails and allow for replies, and view photos from Picasa, Photobucket, Facebook and a Windows Live account. All in one device. Connectivity includes WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.0, infrared (for the remote control), a multiformat memory card slot and both full-sized USB and a micro-USB port.

Microsoft’s SideShow is a secondary sub-display running off of a Windows Vista system. It hasn’t been as popular as the company had hoped, but now they’re setting their sights on gamers to rejuvenate the concept. The idea is a 6.4-inch touchscreen that is switchable between portrait and landscape orientation, which would present game-specific controls and free up the main display.

Imagine an RPG title that could shift its control palette to the SideShow display, leaving the main monitor for the primary interface, or racing games that could offer a separate rear-view mirror. Yes, it has a lot of potential in gaming.