Tag Archives: touch table

Medtronic HRS Conference Tables & Wall

November 10, 2009 – 2:47 PM

We’ve written in this space about numerous multitouch table and wall experiences. While that’s not the only type of interactive experience we are interested in, it’s certainly a technology that we’re excited about and that we see enormous potential for. As time goes by the evidence in support of our belief that these types of [...]

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Perceptive Pixel Multitouch

March 28, 2009 – 3:27 AM

This month we’ve been posting a lot about multitouch table technologies and providers. No discussion of multitouch computing would really be complete without mentioning the work of Jeff Han. A computer science professor at NYU, Han has been a leading proponent of multitouch computing for years. Back in February 2006, he gave a groundbreaking demo [...]

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NYC Visitor Center Touch Table Experience

March 25, 2009 – 10:28 PM

Anyone who lives in New York City (as I do) cannot have failed to notice that the city has been pushing a fairly extensive and well executed campaign to bolster tourism. A lot of this publicity has been centered around a serious of “Ask The Locals” advertisements and the “NYCgo” branding, with its nicely executed [...]

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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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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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