A New Multi-Touch Display From Lumin

Multi-touch displays became really popular with Apple's iPhone, after JazzMutant, a French company, released the Lemur Input Device in 2005. Anyway, despite Apple's move to register the word multi-touch as a trademark associated with their iPhone, a German company called Lumin Visual Technologies just released a multi-touch system called (you'd never guess that!)...Lumin Multitouch!

According to the official data sheet of this product, "the Lumin 42” – Multitouch Terminal comprises a 4500 ANSILumin projector, an Intel-Mac-Mini and a Lumin Multitouch Screen. Our new polymer foil creates a tactile screen surface
which is pleasing to touch and does not degrade with age, [..]. The screen has excellent optical qualities, such as optimal gain, brilliant contrast and high resolution, operating over a wide range of ambient light conditions. The Multitouch Terminal is housed in a white plastic shell."

The software package included incorporates "the Lumin input recognition software and a series of standard applications, which are pre-installed for plug-and-play operation", but custom applications can also be created, with the help of a software interface provided to help you accomplish this.

At this time, pricing for this device is not public, but available on request. Its power consumption is pretty high, in my opinion, with up to 750W, while the lamp's lifetime is only 3000h in Eco-Mode, and 2500h in Normal-Mode. The resolution of the MultiTouch is the goold-old 1024X768(XGA), and the included Mac computer is a mini featuring a 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo CPU, 1GB DDR2 memory, and 80GB hard drive and Mac OS X 10.5/Windows XP, together with a Wireless Apple Keyboard and Mouse kit.

To see the device in action, and also find out more about it, you can visit the official page, here.