Ideum is featured in latest issue of Santa Fe’s Trend Magazine. “Trend explores and celebrates the unique and fascinating intermingling of cultural influences, tradition, and innovation in art, architecture, and design—in Santa Fe, the…
GestureWorks is now available and has Windows 7 support. Updated: October 18, 2009: We will now be releasing GestureWorks on December 3rd, we apologize for the delay. We will be building…
It’s official, our MT-50 multitouch table is now available, we’ve updated our information pages and product specifications document (PDF) for this second generation touch table. The table comes bundled with GestureWorks, our Flash multitouch SDK. Here’s the video of the MT-50 from multitouch exhibits on YouTube. (A QuickTime version is available at: multitouch.blip.tv) The MT-50 multitouch table has several improvements over the MT2. As our press release (Ideum Releases New Version of Its High-Resolution…
NAME (The National Association for Museum Exhibition) has re-published a number of exhibit design articles from the Exhibitionist magazine. These free, PDF versions of the magazine can be found on the NAME site in the Back Issues and Online Archive section. While there isn’t a complete collection of back issues, there are number of excellent articles. While you’re on the NAME site you might want to consider becoming a member. The release of these back issues is the culmination…
After months of development, we have set the release date for our multitouch framework and development environment for Adobe Flash. A free public alpha version will be available on July 15th. You can learn…
In August, we will be expanding the Ideum “campus” by adding a new studio space across the street. This new space (studio “C”) will allow us to work on larger exhibit installations, speed turn…
Since the release of the Wii gaming system developers have been experimenting in connecting game controllers with other computer systems. Our recent entry into multitouch, has deepened our interest in all forms of physical computing. So, we decided to take a quick look ourselves to see what possibilities Wii Remote controllers and Adobe Flash might provide for exhibit development. As a quick proof of concept, we downloaded the WiiFlash Server for Mac and took a look at some the examples provided on the…
The HP TouchSmart all-in-one PC is a low-cost and stable platform that has proven useful for deployment as a multitouch kiosk. In past exhibits we have deployed them using custom kiosk stands. Beginning in July, we are offering an affordable off-the-shelf kiosk stand that will accommodate any size HP TouchSmart, you can learn more on our TouchStands page. The rugged Ideum kiosk stand is made for professional installations in high-traffic environments. It is machined from heavy-gauge powder coated steel, with a dual…
Update: February 13, 2015 – We have a completely updated version of the EM Spectrum application using dual 55″ 4K UHD screen. We’ve begun work on our most ambitious multitouch exhibit to date. We are building a 100″ table for Adventure Science Center’s Sudekum Planetarium in Nashville, Tennessee. The design is based on our MT2 multitouch table. For this custom installation, we are doubling the current form factor to create our largest multitouch surface to date. Of course, doubling the size involves a number of significant changes.
