TouchSmarter: Touch Screen Gadgets

NUITEQ’s Partner Interactive Box just released a few brand new videos of their multi-touch solutions, which come bundled with the award-winning multi-touch software product Snowflake Suite.

Interactive Box Monolite & Mekanix multi-touch solutions

Interactive Box Touche & Bigfoot multi-touch solutions

Multi-touch gestures

For more info on Interactive Box their Industrial Touch and Multi-touch solutions, visit www.interactivebox.it or call 00 39 0 40 8333 436

Interactive Box is excited to offer NUITEQ’s multi-touch software solutions with their innovative multi-touch hardware and so are other System Integrators, VAR’s and resellers. Learn more about what some of NUITEQ’s Customers and Partners have to say about NUITEQ services and Snowflake Suite, here in the Testimonials section.

Early last week together with NUITEQ’s Chief Marketing Officer Pradeep George, I hopped on a plane from Skellefteå via Stockholm, Helsinki, Delhi to Pune to visit our Indian Partner TouchMagix.

It started off nicely with a lemon cheese cake at Arlanda airport in Stockholm.

Arriving in Delhi I found out that Finnair lost my suitcase, so I was happy to go on a shopping spree for new clothes on Finnairs cost. Don’t you just love it when an airliner loses your bag?

Two days later Finnair returned my bag broken, suitcase Fin(n)ished :(, but hey at least I did some free shopping right?

The next couple of days we spent at the TouchMagix office to learn more about their interactive solutions, such as interactive floors, walls, tables and other products such as the MagixFone, which is an awesome piece of technology.

Interactive floor

MagixTable

Also check out the MagixTable here, a true multi-user multi-touch table that comes bundled with NUITEQ’s award-winning multi-touch software product Snowflake Suite.

Aside from all the cool technology that we played around with, my favorite item at their office (aside from the air-conditioning) was this coffee mug.

Of course you can’t go to India without eating great Indian food.

I was very impressed with how good vegetarian food can taste. If you are planning to become a vegetarian, India is probably the best and easiest country in the world to become one.

During one of the evenings we went out eating with the TouchMagix team, which was great fun.

Had great laughs with TouchMagix’ Manager of Sales and International Business Amit Rao

I was impressed with the passion and dedication the TouchMagix team offered Customer Support. They are reachable 24/7 and even though we were having a team dinner in a restaurant and a customer called with an issue, they picked up the phones and laptops and got back to work at the restaurant dinner table. Thats how customer support should be.

My good friend Anup Tapadia CEO of TouchMagix assisting a customer despite having a company dinner

Dedicated to Customer Satisfaction

A quick pic before we went home

I big thanks goes out to TouchMagix for their hospitality.

It was an interesting trip to learn more about the TouchMagix team, their products, the Indian culture, food, customs etc.

The most memorable of the trip was the crazy traffic, good shopping, awesome food, the Mumbai bombing and the big contrast between rich and poor. Looking at the poverty in the country, you realize how lucky you actually are if you can eat every day, have a roof over your head and a job that you love.

Oh yeah, I was surprised to find out that pressing buttons in an elevator is actually a job.

Today NUITEQ has released the Snowflake 2.0.3 version upgrade.

Changes include:

- Added more Browser settings
- Added a limit to the amount and the size of the log files
- Fixed various hard coded paths in the applications
- Fixed general optimizations in the applications
- Fixed issue with running applications in exclusive mode
- Fixed memory leak in Puzzle when using videos
- Fixed a crash issue with receiving empty TUIO messages
- Fixed issues when running Draw and DrawOnVideo in windowed mode
- Fixed using external applications
- Fixed using submenus
- Fixed a crash issue in PDF Viewer
- Increased the max size of the keyboard in Browser

If you have any questions or feedback about Snowflake, please let us know here.

To learn more about the changes we have made to Snowflake throughout the years, check the Change Log on the NUITEQ Support Wiki here.

In the below video, Malaysia based Innovation Now Sdn Bhd is showcasing Snowflake Suite 2.0 on their true multi-user multi-touch table called Inno-Table.

Some of the features and applications included in the video are:
- 180 degree interface flip (ideal for horizontal collaborative environments)
- Content sorting in the Media Viewer
- PDF viewer
- Multi-touch web browser with onscreen keyboard, amongst others highlighting Facebook

Want to learn more about Snowflake? Contact us here.

We are so excited about the Auto Updater program that we added to Snowflake 2.0, that we released another quick update for you, already the second update in just a few days, namely version 2.0.2. Its kind of addicting to be able to offer you the latest improvements in such a short time frame and in such an easy way.

Just as a reminder for those of you who are familiar with previous versions of Snowflake. Until recently every time when we released a new upgrade, you had to uninstall your existing Snowflake version and then install the new version. We however wanted to offer our Partners and Customer a smoother experience when offering them the latest version of the software, so we developed the Auto Updater program.

This program (which comes installed with Snowflake) basically looks for any Snowflake updates that are available for download and then easily installs available updates on top of the existing installation, without the need for you to go through the process of completely uninstalling and reinstalling Snowflake. We figured that this would make your life a lot easier.

The changes for version 2.0.2 are as follows:

Version 2.0.2 - 2011/07/06

- Added settable colors in DrawOnVideo
- Added settable text in PDF Viewer and Media viewer
- Added settable text when loading applications
- Added .mp4 video support to Puzzle
- Added smoother thumbnail loading in Media Viewer
- Added support for using specific images as thumbnails in Media Viewer
- Added a better message when OSC fails to bind the socket
- Added a setting to specify the Browser menu bar colors
- Added a message if the screen saver fails to play (codec issue)
- Added initial support for unicode in Snowflake
- Fixed web page centering
- Fixed corner menu default setting in Configuration Editor
- Fixed so that mouse control is enabled by default on Mac
- Fixed issue with config variables that contained ‘:’
- Fixed various minor issues in Configuration Editor
- Fixed Configuration Editor UI for Mac
- Fixed an issue where Snowflake took a long time to exit
- Fixed a hard coded path issue in PDF Viewer
- Fixed rendering issues in Connledge

For the Mac users, we tuned the Auto Updater for Mac, so you’ll be able to use it from version 2.0.2 (this release and onward). So we recommend you to install the complete 2.0.2 and use the Auto Updater from hereon forward for any updates that will become available in the future.

If you haven’t already installed Snowflake before, you can download a free evaluation version here.

The Snowflake SDK for Windows will be available for download today or tomorrow, so keep your eyes on this blog or NUITEQ’s corporate twitter at www.twitter.com/multitouch

Today was a very encouraging day, having received endorsements from all over the world from Partners, Clients and soon to be Clients about how much they enjoyed the new Snowflake 2.0 release.

From France
I just tested the new 2.0 version and it really looks great!

I like:
- the new design, more modern
- the new browser
- the 180° swap, really great on a table
- the new organisation for the viewer app, that’s really great, it will help a lot for custom content, we use this app all the time!