Monthly Archives: March 2009

Ideum’s NUI Table

March 18, 2009 – 6:53 AM

Among the hardware providers we researched during the past year was Ideum and their mt2 table product. Ideum’s hardware product is a fairly straightforward enclosure, not all that disimilar to Microsoft’s Surface product.

Unlike Microsoft’s solution, however, the mt2 is based around a third-party software suite from NUI, a software company in Sweden that specializes in [...]

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TacTable’s Multitouch Table

March 15, 2009 – 12:48 PM

Apple is well known for bringing new cutting edge technology to the masses but in most cases they are not the inventors or first movers. This is true for the MP3 player market (does anyone remember the Diamond Rio circa 1999) as well as the multi-touch technology that powers their iPhone. We have been working [...]

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Next Window’s Multitouch Overlay

March 12, 2009 – 9:51 PM

Next Window’s overlay or integrated multitouch solution rests on top of an LCD display and provides a touch interface. This product is not true multitouch product (e.g. 50 simultaneous touches) but does offer a user 2 points of interaction. This is ok if you are designing an experience for a single user, but obviously does [...]

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Smart’s Multitouch Table

March 10, 2009 – 9:36 PM

Smart Table is a small multi-touch table solution from the same company that makes the Smart Board interactive whiteboards. This product is targeted at elementary schools and offers an inexpensive solution (approximately $9k) that can be customizes via C++ SDK. This is a projector-based IR solution that is true multitouch – 40 simultaneous interaction points. [...]

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ImpressX’s Multitouch Table xdesk

March 6, 2009 – 9:21 PM

ImpressX’s multitouch table product called xdesk is a 52inch rear projector based IR system similar to others currently available in the states. It appears to be true multi-touch solution and offers a similar 1024×768 resolution as its competitors.  Our attempts to contact them have failed and their website has a number of broken links so [...]

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