ASUS Pushes for Multi-Touch and Ultimate Wireless Capabilities

Greg and I are sitting in on an ASUS event where the company is showing-off many cool products. Multi-Touch technology is something that’s being pushed hard, and we’re going to be seeing ASUS deploy implementation into a wide-variety of products. Eee PCs will feature it, and so will some of ASUS’ regular notebooks. On the M50, for example, there isn’t a typical touch-pad, but rather a touch-screen that doubles for both tasks.

Then we have an Eee-based keyboard media center PC, that includes a full computer inside of a regular-sized keyboard. You read that correctly… a full-blown PC, inside of a freaking keyboard. It will connect to a display via Ultra Wideband HDMI, and the keyboard itself will feature a 5″ touchscreen/touchpad, a microphone and speaker and also a LAN port. This one will be very interesting to see hit the market.

Pushing the multi-touch scheme even further, ASUS will also unveil an Eee PC-based tablet PC. It will convert from both a regular notebook to a tablet, and comes in an 8.9″ form-factor. It will be great for those work-hounds on the go. Hopefully we’ll see some decent battery-life out of this one.

We also learned that ASUS is working tightly with Microsoft to make sure Windows 7 works well on all mobile PCs, especially the company’s own Eee PC. An example shown on-stage showed-off the OS running on a netbook with 1GB of RAM, and it ran well for the most part. There are sure to be great things to flourish from this partnership.

That’s all we can report on for now, but I had to get this out there since some of their announcements are pretty amazing. Please refer to our ongoing CES forum thread where we will post updates as we’re able.