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This website is an initiative of the award-winning Dutch company Infofilm. Infofilm is producer of digital media for museums: touch-screen apps, online collections, museum audio and video tours,  rfid-, wifi-, iphone-, ipod touch-applications, 2D and 3D animations, motion graphics, big screen presentations, cross media, etcetera.

Light Touch™ is an interactive projector that instantly transforms any flat surface into a touch screen. It frees multimedia content from the confines of the small screen, allowing users to interact with that content just as they do on their hand held devices – using multi-touch technology.

Light Touch™ has a Windows CE operating system and runs Adobe Flash Lite, making it a versatile platform, ideal for realising new uses. Built in WiFi capability connects applications directly to the internet, immediately opening up rich functionality such as social networking, multimedia sharing and electronic point of sale.

Light Blue Optics is a privately-funded company developing and supplying miniature projection systems for use in high volume applications in markets including automotive, digital signage and consumer electronics.

Read more: Light Touch.

Now that more and more smart phones and MP3 players have touch-screen interfaces, people have grown accustomed to interacting with gadgets using only taps and swipes of their fingers. But on the 11th floor of a downtown Manhattan building, New York University researchers Ilya Rosenberg and Ken Perlin are developing an interface that goes even further. It’s a thin pad that responds precisely to pressure from not only a finger but a range of objects, such as a foot, a stylus, or a drumstick. And it can sense multiple inputs at once. Learn more: Technology Review: A Touch of Ingenuity.

Buttons belong to 20th century. We’re ready for something better. We’re ready for something more refined. We’re ready for touch screens.

via gadgetpages: Top 10 Touch-Screen Devices?.