Multi touch hardware and software manufacturers Ideum is trying to set up an office revolution. In its vision, the traditional desk will be projected capacitive touch table instead, the user can manipulate the device by hand gestures and in kind. This concept is called "active desktop" (dynamic desktop), the company's CEO and creative director Jim Spadaccini Jim Spadaccini think this idea can be applied to any projected capacitive touch screen (PCT).
Touch screen is very attractive, we are now dealing with a variety of touch screen every day." Spadaccini said, "we like physical keyboard and paper Notepad, like the feeling that the real deal, but we are increasingly obsessed with the world in touch screen of this plane. Data in the computer can be synchronized to the cloud, it is easier to share with others, the virtual world to bring this kind of convenience to defeat the notebook and the like."
Ideum research and development of the "dynamic desktop" is not only the convenience of touch screen, but also try to keep and carry forward the operational characteristics of the entity object. Such as when you put the phone on the desktop, mobile phone photo album or other documents will then display on the touch screen, direct drag photos can be shared on social networks can also be in touch screen to continue editing files on the phone. If you have too many things on your desktop, you can also put a physical keyboard directly on it, and start typing in a new document. Again, for example, as long as the digital camera into the active desktop, touch screen will pop up a interface to access photos directly without further consideration should use which app to finish this work, not to go to the card reader to the computer and send pictures.
Ideum company is still in consideration of more details of the dynamic optimization of the desktop, during which uphold the concept is let it is strong interactivity and not to abandon certain way as we have been accustomed to work, the idea and through the use of shorthand to alleviate the burden of recording is somewhat similar. R & D team is stepping up efforts to write procedures identify all kinds of goods, Spadaccini said: "in theory, this system can identify the real even without tens of thousands of species, at least hundreds of." At present, this product is the problem is that the system software can only identify the 3D printer produced, conductive materials for the material items, and sometimes can not correctly identify some of the old items.
Microsoft developed a vision based multi touch interaction technology PixelSense, is through the optical components to identify objects, which makes it almost can identify any object, does not require any capacitive characteristics of the object. In contrast, Ideum's "dynamic desktop" can only identify conductive objects is a technical problem.
But pixelsense system also has its problems: camera based object recognition in the touch screen system size, the thickness of at least several inches, and vulnerable to interference of light or calibration. Compared with the projection type capacitive touch control technology does not have the problem of light interference, but also with the same size of the PixelSense system display screen thickness of its screen has been reduced by only one or two inches.
Author: Moss Richard
Source: gizmag