Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime: Wii U GamePad won't feature multi-touch

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/06/wiiuhandson-1339530510.jpg The Wii U’s 6.2-inch killer feature might look a whole lot like a tablet, but prospective buyers shouldn’t expect it to function like one at all. In a recent interview with Kotaku, NOA prexy Reggie Fils-Aime confirmed that multi-touch capabilities will indeed be purposefully absent from the upcoming GamePad. It’s a puzzling omission for sure, but not one made lightly on Nintendo’s part. According to Fils-Aime, the existence of hardware buttons on the controller itself render that full-blown slate functionality redundant, not to mention cost-prohibitive and “unwieldy.” So you see, the Big N giveth and the Big N taketh away, but all in the name of user convenience. You can check out the full blow-by-blow with the House that Mario built’s American keeper at the source link below.
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Harman Kardon trots out five iPhone-matching headsets, keeps you in high Apple fashio

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2012/06/harman-kardon-bt.jpg There’s no shortage of iPhone-friendly headsets. Not many are actually designed to match an iPhone’s looks, however, and Harman Kardon is counting on that urge to coordinate to draw a few listeners into a new line of very tersely-named headphones and headsets. The more conspicuous resemblances to Apple’s creation come through the wired CL on-ear headphones, the Bluetooth-equipped BT over-ears and the noise-cancelling NC over-ears, all of which share a distinctly familiar-looking leather-and-steel design. Subtler listeners will still get a trace of similarity with the in-ear NI and upgraded AE buds, although most of the iPhone friendliness at their size comes through an in-line microphone and remote. Both the BT and NC are battery-powered and last for 12 and 30 hours for their respective special tricks; they’ll both keep working through a wire if you’ve forgotten to charge up just before that Hong Kong vacation.
In step with the iPhone-heavy focus, Harman Kardon is only selling the quintet of headphones through Apple’s online and physical stores, where they start at $100 for the NI and peak at the NC’s $299. One caveat: we wouldn’t factor the NC into any short-term trips, as it won’t show until the late summer. Gallery: Harman Kardon AE, BT, CL, NI
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