Ideum and 3M’s partnership continues to produce innovative advances in large-scale multitouch hardware. Tomorrow morning, at the Digital Signage Expo (DSE) in Las Vegas, the two companies will make an announcement unveiling…
One of the most requested items we had this year, was for an angled version of our touch table. We developed a custom table this summer for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art Surveying…
UPDATE 4/1/16 – We also now support a form of fudicial marker recognition. See our JCB Tasting Salon portfolio piece. With the Samsung SUR40 multitouch table, apparently being discontinued, those of…
We’ve always been asked if we rent our multitouch tables, well now we do! Finally, you can rent a Platform 46 full-size table or a Platform 46 / 32 coffee table for…
So how tough is the MT-50 multitouch table? Just last week, we tried to find out. We conducted a few tests to see how the glass surface of the table in particular would hold up to some serious abuse. First, we dropped a 12-pound bowling ball onto the table from a height of 2 feet, then we hit the table hard with a 4-pound hammer. Not only did the tempered glass surface survive, it showed no marks from these impacts. As you can…
We’ve just posted a position for an Exhibit Developer/Technician 1 on Craigslist. As we state in the posting… “We seek a full-time exhibit developer who can help us build and install computer-based multi-touch tables and custom exhibit installations. We also need help with technical documentation, email and phone support, so strong writing and communication skills are required. This is an entry-level position, so we don’t expect applicants to have museum or exhibit experience, but we are looking for someone with fabrication, shop skills, electric skills,…
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…
There is a video on YouTube of our MT2 multitouch table in action at the Ontario Science Centre. The video shows our multitouch mash-up that uses Yahoo! Maps and Flickr photos. (The video also includes various applications from NUI’s Snowflake software suite which comes bundled with each table.) We worked with Ontario Science Centre to customize the mapping program and they have opened it up to the Flickr community. Visitors can join their group, Innovation in Toronto, and upload geo-tagged photos to be included in the…
Today we released a trial version of the first Adobe Flash Multitouch SDK complete with drivers for the HP TouchSmart and Dell Studio One. You can download the free alpha…
