By David Ponce
German company Citron sure knows how to put the “multi” in multitouch. Where most multitouch systems these days are happy to track 2 points of contact, Citron’s dreaMTouch can track up to 32 simultaneously. It’s neither resistive nor capacitive, but rather uses IR technology which gives it “no special dependency on touch operation medium (stylus, finger, glove, …)”. More specs below:
quick reaction with 50 coordinates per second
optional medium between the display and the user (glass, plastic, air, …)
no shadow spots or blind areas like with other IR multitouches
no drift
no mechanical wear
At this stage Citron is developing this hardware and there are very few software applications using the dearMTouch’s capabilities. Recently, Germany’s Elektrosil partnered with NUITEQ to integrate Snowflake Suite on the dreaMTouch, but that’s about all we know in terms of current software integration. This of course might have something to do with the fact that dreaMTouch won’t officially be commercially available until January 2010. The system is awaiting patent approval.
[ The dreaMTouch ] VIA [ Technabob ]
Now that's touchy!
I still can't wait to buy a table with multi touch features and D&D app. I'm so excited by this technology.
Now that's touchy!
I still can't wait to buy a table with multi touch features and D&D app. I'm so excited by this technology.