HP Wall of Touch!
Imagine a LARGE interactive display that doesn't even have to be touched for it to respond! That's what HP is testing - a touchless "Wall of Touch". It's made up of nine 43" "zero bezel" displays, each 1.5" thick with a resolution of 1080p, being driven by HP Z-800 workstation. Can you imagine walking by being able to find a store, or see different video feeds with a flick of movement? Check out the WSJ blog posting and video demonstration, and see it for yourself.
Optical Touchscreen Investment News
Yet another sign that the touchscreen market is rapidly growing. FlatFrog Laboratories based in Sweden and UK announced they raised the equivalent of $18M US in new equity to develop and productize their cost-effective large multi-touch in-glass displays, mainly targeted at the education, gaming, hospitality and digital signage markets.
This on the heals of the Tyco Electronics acquisition of French touch input technology company Sensitive Object for $62M announced late January, 2010. It'll be interesting to see what Tyco does with the technology - if Tyco plans to go after the small touchscreen markets like Apple iTablet/iPad or GPS markets.
This on the heals of the Tyco Electronics acquisition of French touch input technology company Sensitive Object for $62M announced late January, 2010. It'll be interesting to see what Tyco does with the technology - if Tyco plans to go after the small touchscreen markets like Apple iTablet/iPad or GPS markets.
Select Your Touchscreen Guide
Planar has created an interactive tool to choose the right touchscreen display for a specific application or market. There's a short version - about 14 questions and a longer version (still pretty short - 18 questions). What's even better is you can have someone contact you and guide you on how to get a demo or purchase. Check out the touchscreen guide or click on the link at planartouch.com.
Planar Touchscreen Used in Pizza Restaurant
Extreme Pizza, located in Beaverton, Oregon chose Planar's PT1550MX resistive touchscreen LCD with integrated cardswipe (MSR) for their POS system. Owner Al Woodward said they've even dumped drinks on the screen with no problems. See the whole video below.
New Touchscreens for Point-of-Sale (POS) and Retail
Today Planar launched two new touchscreens: the PA1575R 15" touchscreen computer for POS applications, and the PT2275SW 22" wide SAW touchscreen LCD for smaller format digital signage applications or desktop applications requiring larger screen sizes. Read the complete press release here. These products are also on display at NRF, Planar booth 247.
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