TouchSmarter: Touch Screen Gadgets

Natural User Interface Europe AB briefly got featured in a Wired article about N-Trigs innovative multi-touch hardware platform.

N-Trig’s digitizer

Find the original Wired article here, titled “Touchscreen Kit May Spur More Multi-Touch Apps”.

NUI’s OEM Partner Arcstream AV, that integrated NUI Suite Snowflake on their own multi-touch displays, demonstrated their product the Multi-touch Wall at Butterfly Night Chimera in the UK.

People were actually lining up in a cue in front of the large scale wall, in order to have a play with the screen.

Also have a look at the video below where Arcstream and Natural User Interface partnered on a project for Lockheed Martin:

Natural User Interface (www.natural-ui.com) from Sweden (no affiliation with NUI Group) is organizing a multi-touch summit, focused on the software development on Adobe’s platform Flash.

The event will be held the 9th of May and is sponsored by Adobe. It will take place at the Adobe office in Munich, Germany.

If you are interested to participate and would like to receive more details, feel free to send me an email at hv@natural-ui.com (Kindly note that there is limited seating available)

Natural User Interface got featured in the April edition of Pulse Magazine for partnering with Raffles Education, the largest private education group in Asia.

More NUI media coverage can be found here.

The press release can be found here: 2 January 2009
NUI partnering with Raffles Education on showcase in Asia

Below a summary of the Natural User Interface Multi-touch Twitter update 14th of April - 28th of April.

You can find NUI’s Twitter at www.twitter.com/multitouch where you can keep track of operational updates from NUI from Sweden, related to multitouch technology.

Check out this cool company called Kicker Studio, home amongst others of Dan Saffer http://www.kickerstudio.com/

NUI received another trademark for one of our software applications

Natural User Interface Europe AB partners with Bredbandsbolaget, NextWindow, Telac, Apple and HP on an technology exhibition in Stockholm

Natural User Interface Europe AB got mentioned in Metro Teknik, a prominent Swedish technology magazine

As co-founder unregistering from NUI Group and total and all affiliation, due to certain admins (who have double agendas) repeatedly changing my profile and removing posts and chats
(I once again would like to confirm that our company Natural User Interface Europe AB, has no affiliation at all with the NUI Group community (which understandably seems to be a hot item these days)

Pawel Solyga will be attending Apple WWDC 2009 to represent Natural User Interface Europe AB

Natural User Interface got featured in a Swedish regional business magazine “vÃ¥ra pengar” (our money) in last weeks edition on the 24th of April

Just got back from Silicon Valley, staying in Stockholm over night, heading back to NUI headquarters in Skelleftea tomorrow
(California was great (nice weather, great nature), if you ever get the chance, I recommend going to Alcatraz, they have an unique award winning audio tour, which was very interesting)

I’m happy that Sharath Patali, from India, who will be joining NUI headquarters in Sweden this summer, got approved for Google Summer of Code

At Interactive Displays, Jeff Han gave his keynote which had some interesting and funny parts in it. Really enjoy listening to him, great guy
(might want to add here, that despite the cool things Microsoft demonstrated (most of it I already saw on youtube earlier), that Jeff Han continuous to amaze people with clever HCI

Natural User Interface Europe AB hosts Multitouch Summit, sponsored by Adobe, 9th of May, Adobe office Munich, join? -> mail@natural-ui.com

Just came back from an interesting meeting with Tim Kukulski, Senior Computer Scientist, who is working on multi-touch within Adobe

Meeting a partner in Silicone Valley tomorrow

Natural User Interface featured in Pulse magazine from Raffles Education in Asia as multi-touch technology providing partner

Arcstream AV and NUI’s combined multi-touch solution for Lockheed Martin demonstrated in the UK

NUI Suite Snowflake 1.4 multi-touch software solution has brand new graphics, see http://tinyurl.com/cv77aa

Just arrived in San Jose, will be meeting some companies in Silicone Valley before IDC

Natural User Interface Europe AB (NUI) sponsors Jimmy Hertz (Aquatouch) from SassExperience with a free ticket to IDC San Jose

Just got interviewed by another Swedish magazine regarding multi-touch technology.

Want to sign up for the NUI news letter? Please let us know at mail@natural-ui.com

Just received the book Designing Gestural Interfaces by Dan Saffer, where I was mentioned on page 24 with colleague Peter Bomark in action
(book looks great by the way, very attractive illustrations, can’t wait to read it)

Last week Natural User Interface Europe AB got featured in VÃ¥ra Pengar (Our Money) a Swedish business magazine, with its 67″ multi-touch table.

Unfortunately the article is only in Swedish.

View also other publications of Natural User Interface in the media.

Microsoft’s Surface has been shipping out to corporate customers for a year now, but we haven’t heard much about the backend setup of the $17,000 table — sure, we know it’s fun when it’s up and running all those custom apps, but what’s it like after the unboxing? Incredibly frustrating, says FD kinesis’s Gordon Miller. Hired to implement a Surface solution for a client, Miller and his team first spent 30 minutes on the phone with MS phone support trying to locate the power socket, and another lengthy period of time poking at an unresponsive touchscreen before realizing that the Surface doesn’t respond to touch out of the box. Yep, you read that right — Microsoft’s $17,000 big-ass touchscreen table requires a keyboard and mouse to set up, something which isn’t noted in any of the marketing or manuals. Ouch. Hopefully that’ll get fixed before this thing ships to consumers in 2011, but in the meantime, hit the read link for the entire harrowing tale — it’s a pretty fun read for a Friday afternoon.

Source: engadget.com

Original link: here

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The Interactive Displays Conference, held last week in San Jose was according to me, a success.

I just arrived from a long trip from San Jose, to Los Angeles to Atlanta, in Stockholm, waiting over night to return to NUI’s headquarter in Skelleftea tomorrow.

Despite not having an exhibition table at the event, due to last minute arrangements, Natural User Interface Europe AB was happy to have sponsored the event with wireless internet for everybody.
I hope everybody enjoyed our sponsorship efforts.

Here some of my thoughts:
* Big thumbs up for Pira tech for managing to get so many multi-touch industry professionals (Wacom, Mindstorm, NextWindow, 3M, Jeff Han (Perceptive Pixel), LG, Tyco Electronics, Stantum and more) and hobbyists together
* Great location in the heart of Silicon Valley
* Great to meet the partners from the industry
* Nice to play around with the several solutions in the different exhibition stand

The below speakers were the most noticeable to me, either because of the topic, the way it was presented or simply because I did not attend all talks:

* Brent Bushnell from Tapcode was very attractive to listen to, pleasant to hear, nice content and interesting research results for interactive applications in restaurants
* Andy Wilson and Steven Bathiche from Microsoft Research had very appealing stuff to demonstrate (unfortunately an epic Windows 7 beta crash fail during the presentation ) - they gave a nice glimpse of the tech of the future and the projects they have been working on
* Jeff Han gave insight in his previous works and some of his current work (appealing to listen to and funny)
* Mark Fihn, Publisher from VERITAS ET VISUS, US showed several cool things that he has been covering over the last years as a publisher
* Lenny Engelhardt, Vice President for Business Development demonstrated the capabilities of N-Trig’s solutions (funny and appealing to listen to)

I believe this picture says it all.

View the Ideum website.

Natural User Interface Europe AB (NUI) and Arcstream AV partnered to serve aerospace and defense contractor Lockheed Martin, with multi-touch technology.

Lockheed showcased at a three day Air Traffic Control (ATC) event, how multi-touch technology can be used within their industry.

See also one of Arcstreams vertical multi-touch solutions running NUI Suite Snowflake multitouch software.