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Display and Projection

Microsoft's Future: It's Full of Surfaces

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Microsoft's Future: It's Full of Surfaces

If Microsoft has its way, Surface devices will be omnipresent-- not only tablets and smartphones, but as wall-sized touchscreens and interactive tables, all of which smart and seamlessly connected.

Such a vision comes from the trailer announcing the opening of the Microsoft Envisioning Centre whose mission is to create not the next generation of Microsoft computing, but products for the next 5- 10 years.

According to the 2-minute video, nearly every available surface will be interactive, since giant touchscreens pepper the walls both offices and homes. All the displays are interconnected, meaning users can instantly beam and interact with data from tablets and smartphones (such as family photos or work schedules) on the bigger screens.

Meanwhile children play on tablets as they watch grandma read bedtime stories (which in turn unfold on screen as interactive cartoons) on the living room TV. Read more...

Touch T6.7: Mac-based Multi-Touch Solution

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Touch T6.7: Mac-based Multi-Touch Solution

~sedna’s Touch T6.7 is the first high-end, completely Mac-based multi-touch solution, says the maker. .

This 67”multi-touch comes with a secondary vertical display to provide a huge workspace with plenty of room for teamwork and collaboration. The one-of-a-kind system offers Dual Mac Pro performance with a professional look and complete reliability.

Touch T6.7 can be used in almost any professional field.

Did you see this at ISE? You would have had to look at the stand of BLiNKBLIiNK where in addition to the selection of multi-touch Read more...

Peerless-AV Builds Kiosk Integration Facility

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Peerless-AV Builds Kiosk Integration Facility

For building custom-made kiosks, Peerless-AV opens a Kiosk Integration Center within its 320,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in USA.

The center assembles, tests and delivers fully integrated, large format display kiosks incorporating products from leading AV, display and digital content delivery manufacturers, including 32” to 90” screens. In just weeks, Peerless-AV can ship finished kiosks directly to the customer for out-of-the-box installation.

The initiative eliminates the need for system integrators and end customers to source components from multiple vendors, wait for shipments to arrive from manufacturers around the world, and perform complex on-site systems integration and testing. The company’s dedicated sales, product management and engineering teams handle all of those functions for the customer, enabling fully integrated custom kiosk systems without the delays or costs typically associated with custom projects. Read more...

TouchSystems Launches InspiraTouch Tables at DSE

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TouchSystems Launches InspiraTouch Tables at DSE

TouchSystems' InspiraTouch is a new line of interactive touch tables with two models: the InspiraTable and the InspiraPoint.

InspiraTable is the touch table: the display and the enclosure. InspiraPoint includes not only the touch table, but also multi-touch software and an optional PC for a complete multi-touch solution. Both of the 1920x1080 tables are available 42" and a 55" sizes and they company hinted to us that it might have a larger size by InfoComm. They have both HDMI and DVI-D inputs.

The touch tables are integrated with an Read more...

Peerless-AV Acquires Ciil Technologies

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Peerless-AV Acquires Ciil Technologies

Peerless-AV acquires Ciil Technologies, a manufacturer of environmental/weatherproof outdoor TVs and displays marketed under the UltraView and Xtreme brand names.

Why is a mount company buying an outdoor displays company? Michael Campagna, president of the Peerless Technology Division, says “Our goal is to build a global technology business on a par with our global AV mounting solutions business. Acquiring Ciil is a key building block in that process.”

“The market for outdoor TVs is growing rapidly in commercial settings, where weatherproof displays are replacing expensive enclosures, as well as in residential environments, where the backyard has become the new living room…” he adds.

“At the same time, this is a strategic acquisition that extends the investment in emerging technology that led to last month’s announcement that we have formed a separate technology division…”

At ISE, Peerless-AV Europe’s press conference also highlighted their intention to become a broader supplier of AV solutions. Read more...

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