Category Archives: Collective

Microsoft’s Surface Multitouch Table

March 25, 2009 – 2:50 PM

We have all heard of Microsoft’s Surface system. It was released back in July 2008 to commercial partners as a new form of touch computing for public environments. There has been a lot of interest about this product over that last 10 months – clients and partners are asking us about it’s functionality, costs, specifications, [...]

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The MultiTouch Cell

March 20, 2009 – 12:00 PM

I came across this company during our research into multitouch displays. Their approach to scalability and use of LCD displays vs. projection is intriguing. We have not used this provider but their technology seems to have some advantages over existing projection-based IR systems. For starters they state that their LCD displays can support 1920×1080 (true [...]

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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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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex

February 23, 2009 – 11:53 PM

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Annex recently opened at the end of 2008 in Soho New York (right around the corner from our office : )  Its brings to NYC a little bit of the Cleveland Rock & Roll Hall of Fame experience but compressed into about 3,000 square feet with a lot [...]

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