Touchwall

Acer T230H Touch Screen Monitor

2010-11-30T08:29:00.000-08:00

I purchased Acer T230H from an Amazon rival simply because I required it rapidly and it wasn't available. Obviously, I paid out more for both the product and delivery. Now, I see that it is again available on Amazon with significant discount.

Pros:
1) In the time of acquisition, the Acer T230H was the one of the largest multi-touch screens readily available. I think still is.

2) It reveals the multitouch features of virtually any Windows 7 laptop or desktop computer.

3) This may be transferred from pc to pc when needed. We now have examined it on both laptop computers and desktops running Windows 7 and it works perfectly.

Cons:
1) I was unable to finish the calibration program during setup. I had difficulty getting the T230H to identify the lower left calibration corners making use of a stylus from a Windows XP Tablet computer. I terminated calibration and used the default configurations. The T230H scans the lower left corners good with its factory settings making this truly no problem.

2) The device is a lot more costly than a standard 1920x1080 display. I'm certain it will drop in price as more distributors carry it.

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Apple iPad vs Amazon Kindle

2010-01-31T09:31:00.000-08:00

Apple has surely plans to put its hands on Kindle dominated e-book reader market. Steve Jobs himself stated this during the famous iPad conference. iPad looks great with latest touch technology but lacks the sophistication to be the next Amazon Kindle. On the other hand, current iPad helped to bring awareness to evolve into more advanced devices for ebook reading.

The main difference between iPad and Amazon Kindle is Ink technology. While iPad doesn't actually provide it, Amazon Kindle tries to give natural book reading experience. We can conclude that Kindle is for more enthusiastic book readers, bookworms.

iPad, as a lightweight tablet with 9.7 inch touchscreen display still good for browsing Internet, watch movies if we ignore that it currently doesn't support Flash technology which is a serious lack. iPad follows the Apple's traditional price policy. Huge overpriced release, then step by step normalizing the price.

Currently, it is better to think that iPad is for casual fast reading like magazines. Overall, the price difference between Amazon Kindle and Apple iPad tablet is not much. If you aim to get more functionality except book reading, iPad can be a better choice for you.

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Schematic RFID Powered Touchwall is Cool

2009-08-04T01:56:00.000-07:00

After the introduction of Microsoft Touchwall, new innovating touchwall devices appear. One of the latest of touch powered devices comes from Schematic, a well-known interactive technology and advertising agency. Users identify themselves to large touchwall screen via RFID tags and begin using the screen elements (texts, objects, video, music etc.) by fingers.

It has several applications like interactive information displays at museums, or even better a product kiosk where you can buy anything you like after RFID tag validation. Schematic Touchwall was in live action at Cannes Lions International Adverting Festival. Read more info about RFID touchwall here.

3D PC Desktop with Touchscreen

2009-04-01T02:12:00.000-07:00

In this video, Bill Barsch from Brasil shows a nice implementation of 3D Desktop using Gentoo Linux, Penmount touchscreen, Gnome, XGL and his fingers. I know you would like to have such a cool touchscreen monitor. If you don't have Microsoft Touchwall, you can enjoy this.

Super Cool Foam Interactive Display

2009-03-14T00:37:00.000-07:00

The future shapes with great innovative ideas. Now, we enter to a decade where materials begin to attract with light, touch, sound sensors etc.

Crazy gadget site Vubx introduced us really flexible and soft foam screen where you can change the images by pressing with your hands. Better you should read the all article and watch the crazy video at vubx.com.

Super Thin Indestructible Skins for Gadgets

2008-11-10T11:40:00.000-08:00

Well, while there are not much news from Microsoft side about Touchwall development further, I will tell you one of my latest discoveries. Zagg's InvisibleShield.

InvisibleShield is the most recommended skin for max. protection of our electronics, gadgets and devices. ZAGG's invisibleSHIELD is an virtually indestructible and super clear material which will protect our gadgets from any scratches. There is a reason why this skin is #1 selling. Zagg's incredible skin is a perfect example of nano memory technology which is widely used in army to protect high speed helicopter blades from especially of debris, dust and dirt. Same technology is now available for geeks. The skin is also famous for its maximum durability and toughness. Another advantage is that it is the slimmest skin in the market, only .2 mm thick. This offer also provides lifetime quality guarantee with free replacements. Free shipping is available as well. Don't put your gadgets in bulky cases or other thick covers.

Best choice for the protection of vulnerable devices like cell phones including iPhone, Samsung, Nokia etc., gaming devices from Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo etc, laptops, GPS devices, media players.

Visit Zagg InvisibleShield website to get more information and watch the scratch test video. Highly recommended !

Microsoft Turns Incredible TouchWall Into Super PowerPoint Plugin

2008-08-18T02:29:00.000-07:00

We have now a Touchwall inspired tool pptPlex from Microsoft Office labs which turns PowerPoint into a more dynamic presentation tool that breaks away from the slide mentality to allow the presenter to zoom in and out of areas.
It was always a problem that text size will not be large enough to read when projected on a wall. Now no worries more because it needs only a simple zooming. Here is a video showing how it works.

Microsoft Touchwall : The Future of Hi-Tech Walls

2008-07-29T03:45:00.000-07:00

TouchWall is a cool hardware in the vain of iPhone with a touch screen feature created by Microsoft. As you can guess, the software was built on Vista called as Plex. Actually it is so similar to Microsoft Surface but Touchwall is simpler and is also significantly cheaper. The mechanism uses three infrared laser that scan the surface. If some movement cuts the laser line it is reported to Plex software for the needed action.

As you can see in the video, it works charmingly. Until now, Microsoft has taken mainly positive feedbacks surprisingly because it is a tradition to blame what Microsoft produces amongst the geeks.

It is quite possible that all the future desktop systems will work at the same way how Touchwall, iPhone and Microsoft Surface operates. My hopes are better for eliminating mouse and keyboard increased as well.

I think it is not commercially available from any company now