For building custom-made kiosks, Peerless-AV opens a Kiosk Integration Center within its 320,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in USA.

The center assembles, tests and delivers fully integrated, large format display kiosks incorporating products from leading AV, display and digital content delivery manufacturers, including 32” to 90” screens. In just weeks, Peerless-AV can ship finished kiosks directly to the customer for out-of-the-box installation.

The initiative eliminates the need for system integrators and end customers to source components from multiple vendors, wait for shipments to arrive from manufacturers around the world, and perform complex on-site systems integration and testing. The company’s dedicated sales, product management and engineering teams handle all of those functions for the customer, enabling fully integrated custom kiosk systems without the delays or costs typically associated with custom projects.

At InfoComm, Corning highlighted Gorilla Glass’ possibilities for large-size displays – specifically for advanced multi-touch and digital signage products.

Corning collaborated with Perceptive Pixel, just purchased by Microsoft

To showcase Perceptive Pixel’s 55” advanced multi-touch LCD display featuring Corning Gorilla Glass. The display handles an unlimited number of touch points and works in concert with up to 3 active styluses for a fluid pen and touch experience. The unit is also optically bonded for near-zero parallax, eliminating the air gap that commonly causes inaccurate touches on other displays.

Corning also partnered with Chilin Solutions to exhibit a 55” professional-grade LED edge-lit LCD outdoor monitor. In addition, Chilin Solutions showcased a 70” display featuring Corning Gorilla Glass in its InfoComm suite.

NPD DisplaySearch projects public displays – including digital signage – will reach 3.1 million units in 2012, up 15% from 2011, with a forecasted 10-year compound annual growth rate of approximately 25% to reach 12 million units by 2018.

Go Corning Gorilla Glass

Touch is so obvious, yet so little understood that if was ice cream, most people would think it only came in vanilla. And the industry is in desperate need of jargon police to watch over the use and abuse of "multitouch" for the diverse emerging market segments.

Touch can be a single point of contact with a screen, multiple points like several fingers on a hand, full hands-on (with all 10 fingers), and even full hands with multiple parties (more than one person using full hands).

When someone tells you their product is "multitouch," you really need to ask "What kind of multitouch?"

The company MultiTouch Ltd. of Finland lives in the upper end of the touch business; let's call it "hypertouch" for lack of a better word. The world of hypertouch is the world of big touch screens in large, public fixed installations.

It's a world where you need to have more than 5 touch points to claim "multitouch." While other multitouch techniques merely see points of contact where fingers touch, MultiTouch Ltd. technology identifies even the hands. It can even distinguish between your hand and mine on the screen and tell which fingers belong to whom. Now that’s hypertouch.

10 months after introduction, Microsoft is now accepting pre-orders for its next generation of Surface, the Samsung SUR40 for Microsoft Surface,from Samsung resellers in 23 countries worldwide.

Automotive, education, finance, healthcare, hospitality, and retail are just some of the industries targeted to take advantage of the $8400 SUR40 with Samsung’s PixelSense technology, sleeker form factor and horizontal/vertical orientation options.

New and existing customers include Dassault Aviation, Fujifilm Corp. and Royal Bank of Canada, have plans for the Samsung SUR40 and will deploy units in locations early 2012.

The flat-screen panel from Samsung uses 2 million built-in sensors.

Go Microsoft SUR40