<-250x250 Square - right->N-trig is a company from Israel focused on developing new technologies meant to allow users to interact with computers and two of their innovative products are the first dual-mode pen and touch input device.
At SID Display Week 2008 in Las Vegas, N-trig showcased a new standard for multi-touch input on large format displays, based on its DuoSense technology with full multi-touch capabilities optimized for large displays.

“N-trig is again raising the bar on the meaning and application of full multi-touch capabilities for large format displays, which will enable OEMs and ODMs to create a user experience that is so immersive that the line between the digital and the physical blurs,” said Amihai Ben-David, CEO of N-trig. “By enabling an unlimited number of other people to use their hands to naturally manipulate digital on screen objects, images and more, DuoSense’s full multi-touch technology brings the user-computer interaction into a new realm, further breaking down the barriers between man and machine.”

A full multi-touch display measuring 22 inches in diagonal can now recognize all the simultaneous touch points from the users. On it you can manage documents like on a desktop computer monitor, moving and pushing these aside with your own hands, and even make sketches or write notes with a pen.

Another capability is of shuffling pictures with both hands. You can also play games in multiplayer mode on the same display, simultaneously.
Such a display, when it will be available on the market, would be useful in the following sectors: gaming, multimedia portable consoles, information kiosks, collaborative design, entertainment, broadcasting, and education.

“We’re provoking the imaginations of our customers, setting the stage for OEMs, ODMs, and ISVs to develop a huge range of new applications,” added Ben-David. “True multi-touch offers an unprecedented experience which takes people to new levels of what they’re able to do with computing devices.”
N-trig published this cool video on YouTube showing what this display can do:

The new product from Pandigital that will be showcased at International Home & Housewares Show 2008 starting Sunday, is a great tool for those of you that talented in cooking and need something to improve your time spent in the kitchen.
It is a Kitchen High Definition TV combined with a Digital Cookbook and with the functionality of a Digital Photo Frame, all in one single device, the world’s first of its kind.

Pandigital headquartered in Dublin, California, is an expert in digital entertainment products industry and a worldwide distributor of MP3s, digital picture frames, qualified in high quality products development.
The spectacular three-in-one product called Kitchen HDTV/Digital Cookbook/Digital Photo Frame displays in the kitchen your favorite cooking shows or recipes, on its 15-inch LCD screen, and comes with support for ATSC/NTSC, composite, S-Video, YPbPr and HDMI.

The Digital Cookbook shows pre-loaded recipes or the ones you stored in its internal memory, while the Digital Photo Frame can display anytime the pictures you stored via a memory card or Google Picasa photo sharing website.

About the design I can tell you that it uses a sleek form to adapt a kitchen conditions on a countertop stand or under-cabinet mount it comes with, this if you prefer not to keep it mounted on the wall, and is built with protection against water spills, oil drops, flour and the other ingredients you use for cooking, while its surface is very easy to clean.

Also you can choose its faceplate to match its color with your kitchen environment, and the faceplates are all in brushed stainless with black and white as the available color options.

Other important features include touch-sensitive interface, remote control, 512MB internal memory ofr about 3,000 pages with food recipes, calendar, clock with alarm to know when to come back and check to see if the dinner is ready, a 6-in-1 card reader with support for SD, XD, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro/Memory Stick Duo, Compact Flash and MultiMediaCard, and the following file types support: JPEG, Motion JPEG, MPEG 1, MPEG 4 and AVI.

This cool three-in-one kitchen display will be available starting June at a suggested retail price of $399.99.

EHX Spring 2008 will host the demonstration of a new complex display from Creston, featuring light sensor for adjustment of the backlight brightness depending on the room’s light intensity, full-motion video, WAV audio playback, built-in microphone and an amplified speaker.

<-250x250 Square - right->All these features contribute in delivering advanced touchpanel technology with different extra options support.
Isys TPS-6L also provides Ethernet connectivity and reduces the graphic load time in ample installations.

It is designed to be easy mounted, with a compact shape, and has a high-contrast 5.7-inch touch display with a resolution of 640 x 480 pixels, allowing the installation of cable TV or security cameras.
One of the options is to have 12 programmable buttons meant to align with fluctuating text and graphics and support context-sensitive menu functions like digital media files.

The exterior is customizable and the user can choose to engrave the bezel with solid or backlit text.

“The TPS-6L provides users with a multitude of style and video processing options,” declared Alex Villiard, Product Line Manager, Crestron. “The ease of the Ethernet connectivity allows users to seamlessly integrate this product into any Crestron environment. Dealers can provide control over external video sources, as well as home features such as lighting and HVAC systems all on one easy to use Crestron touchpanel.”

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!

Yesterday, Planar Systems, a worldwide leader in specialty display solutions, announced six new touch screen displays that are going to join the existing models from its PT series of products. The PT line contains desktop LCD touch screen monitors, widely used by VARs, kiosk integrators and OEMs. While you won’t probably need such a display at home, I am sure that those operating a business in the retail, POS, self-service stations and others, would be interested in finding out more about these products, so here we go…