Desktop computers with multi-touch and Windows Overview.Giant display with multi-touch technology are increasingly being used in business. They are used for presentations or to work together on documents. Behind almost always puts technology from Microsoft.With the touch-screen technology Microsoft has done little luck. Both smartphones with Windows Phone as well as the Surface tablets can not compete with the sales which the successful competition from Apple and Samsung. But maybe Microsoft is so successful if the device a couple of sizes bigger.Had imagined All things digital and then at Cebit 2008: Just as the personal computer "Surface" Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer first time in May 2007 on the D conference.Thanks to the sophisticated multi-touch technology was because in the first version multiple users working simultaneously. Amazed, you could see how the Microsoft representative applications on the multi-touch disk images made larger or smaller, turned back and herschob or reordered. Inside the high-tech table infrared LEDs and four cameras were competent to detect movements of hands or fingers.
Samsung presents market-ready modelEnd of 2011, Samsung introduced the then 101.6 centimeters in front (40-inch) multi-touch table "SUR40" with an enhanced version of Microsoft technology. Was the first version yet equipped with infrared sensors in the panel, used in Microsoft's Pixel Sense "SUR40" more than two million light-sensitive sensors. Each pixel is associated with such an infrared sensor thereby.Thus the device can also detect objects that are stored on disk. The user could for example put his card on the table and his opponent could this - provided you have appropriate software - recognize and transmit to their smartphones have.Up to 50 contacts recognize the device. The integrated computer is powered by AMD's Athlon II X2 dual-core processor, the operating system is Windows 7 The personal computer from Samsung costs according to the list price 8999 euro. Microsoft provides "SUR40" a software developer kit, so companies can develop custom applications for it.Now, from the giant screen with multi-touch technology is fast becoming a trend. Mainly in business they are used, for example, for presentations, or as a whiteboard for video conferencing, in which participants work simultaneously on a document. Most do not use Microsoft's elaborate pixel-sense technology, but capacitive touchscreens.Mondopad: display for presentations and video conferencingOne example is the Mondopad from Infocus. The 55-inch display with integrated core i5 machine and full-HD resolution, (1920 x 1080 pixels) can process two simultaneous touches. According to the manufacturer, the multi-touch display for presentations and video conferencing can be used.During a presentation, the user can highlight some specific items or mark. With video conferencing, any party may make changes to a shared document.Windows 7 Professional and Office 2010 preinstalled in Mondopad already. A webcam for video conferencing, and four microphones are installed. Since October 2012, a Mondopad version is available with Windows 8. The device costs about 6000 euros.
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