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March 2012

3M Touch Systems Exhibits Multi-touch Products at DSE 2012 At the Digital Signage Expo 2012 (March 8-9, 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada), 3M Touch Systems exhibited a wide variety of multi-touch products, ranging from sleek desktop displays to robust chassis displays to a 46" concept table and a 32" optically-bonded display. Check out our YouTube video highlighting the show. Information on these 3M multi-touch desktop and chassis displays can be found at www.3m.com/multitouch . To see many of these products in action, visit one of these upcoming trade shows: Cards and Payments Middle East 2012 (May 15-16, Abu Dhabi, UAE) G2E Asia 2012 ( May 22-24, Macao, PRC) Display Week 2012 (SID) (June 3-8, Boston, MA, U.S.A.) InfoComm 2012 (June 12-15, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.) Global Gaming Expo (October 1-4, Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.)

New "Product Selector" Multi-touch Application Success Story Available In the continuing series of how multi-touch interactivity is quickly becoming an integral requirement for many traditionally single touch applications, now available is the latest Application Story installment "Success Story: Product Selector". This story provides an overview of a cell phone retailer's use of large-format multi-touch displays to speed up the assisted sales process. While you're visiting our web site, consider reviewing these recent additions: Technology Brief: Projected Capacitive Technology, provides an overview on how this technology works and helps explain why PCT technology is becoming the multi-touch standard Application Success Story: Fitness Equipment, provides an overview of why a major fitness equipment manufacturer choose Surface Capacitive technology as the best solution for their new product line.

Multi-Touch Product Feature: 3M Multi-Touch Display M1866PW   The 18.5-inch 3M Multi-Touch Display M1866PW takes interactive display technology to the next level by combining uncompromising multi-touch performance, brilliant high-definition graphics, wide viewing angles and elegant product design into a fully-integrated, easy-to-use, plug-and-play multi-touch desktop device. The M1866PW display incorporates 3M Projected Capacitive Technology and offers full multi-touch capabilities with less than 6 millisecond response time for 20 simultaneous touches. This means fast, accurate touch response over the entire touch surface. One popular application for the M1866PW display is this portrait configuration (shown) for interactive point-of-purchase applications. It's an ideal size for retail end caps, product shelves, or other retail venues where display space is at a premium. Click for information on the M1866PW multi-touch display.

Come See 3M Touch Systems Products Around the World   The best way to evaluate 3M Touch Systems technology and products is to "touch and test them", so click here to see the international exhibition list for an upcoming event in your region.

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NCR eyes disc sales via new kiosks

NCR, which already operates more than 8,000 Blockbuster Express rental kiosks, is looking at starting a separate venture that would use kiosks to sell new releases on DVD and Blu-ray. Last month, when NCR reported its latest quarterly results, the company said it planned to deploy an additional 3,000 Express kiosks this year. Home Media Magazine

Building Kiosk systems

Over the years I have been involved with several startups where we made our own Kiosk type devices.

Making steal boxes is a big and difficult task for a software or electronics guy.

I have worked on 2 Internet web surfing Kiosks a DVD Video Rental Machines and Vending Machine as well as many brainstorming sessions for different informational and other vending kiosk type machines to provide everything from recipes to music and movies on USB Sticks.

I have come realize that building the software for theses touchscreen kiosk systems is best done on a LAMP Flash based Linux system.   LAMP is Linux OS, Apache Web Server, MySQL, PERL/Python/PHP etc scripting.

One real advantage over the other approaches that I have had to suffer though it that there is a large group of web designers/artists which proven skills that can do beautiful and very cool slick flash interfaces.

When I started we were doing the kiosk in another language  such as C, TCL, Visual Studio C++, Visual Basic, C#, Java, and some other programming language. They required the programmer that's doing the data base, Hardware I/O and control and other tasks to also develop the art, and User Interface / user interface flow.

Few programmers can do this well, and worse is that coding an Interface in these other languages is painstaking and ridged. It becomes very inflexible and difficult to maintain.

HTML and Flash you immediately gains all of the flexibility and technology that's been developed for the web. 

For Industrial Touch Screen see http://www.elotouch.com/

Well I just got an E-mail from ACEsuppliers , this is a news letter of products from China. 


There is a company out there making generic Kiosks.  Add code and deploy, so rolling out a kiosk based product have never been easier.

Kiosk

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Larger photo Information System Kiosk Basical standard configuration: kiosk Specification::1. Enclosure: cold rolled steel, (Sta Trial Yueqing Threestars Computer Communication Co.,Ltd. (China(PRC)) Inquire now

UPDATE:
http://www.compustation1.com/ Maker of Kiosk Enclosures.