Oct 22, 2008

A new kind of SmartBoard: Multi-User Multi-Touch SMART Table for Education

SMART Table
I heard a rumor a few months ago that this was coming...and it was true!



The SMART Table "Touch, Learn, Together"

"The SMART Table interactive learning center lets students get hands-on with collaborative activities – and the more hands the merrier. The SMART Table is a versatile learning center where groups of students can create, explore and discover together on the durable screen. The interface is so intuitive that even the youngest child can play games and plunge into learning activities in no time. You can choose from a wide variety of ready-to-go lesson activities, or customize them to suit your own lessons."

SMARTTablerelease

If you are interested in developing for the SMART Table, visit the SMART Table Developer site.

Here are some of my other posts about multi-touch, surface, and table-top computing:

Interactive Touch-Screen Technology, Participatory Design, and "Getting It".


Emerging Interactive Technologies, Emerging Interactions, and Emerging Form Factors

The atracTable Multi-Touch System from Atracsys

Time for More Touch! NASA's collaborative multi-touch table by Gesturetek and Inhanced Digital Corporation; HP touch-screen notebook; NextWindow

New multi-touch "Gravitoy" application from NUI; Multi-touch Space Invaders from Barcelona; "Open source" touch-less multi-touch SDK on CodePlex

Natural User Interface new website shares information about the company's innovative multi-touch solutions...


Time for More Touch! Part Two: Microsoft's "Oahu", a hypothetical (?), affordable version of the Surface multi-touch table..


Creative Programming: openFrameworks - AWESOME for interactive multimedia applications


Ideum's Multi-touch, Multi-user Prototype

2 comments:

DeanHendoICT said...

Great post. I love the SMART board and I like where they are going with their new line of products. One thing I am looking for though is software that runs on all IWBs. Supposedly their rival Promethean has something similar in the works.

Lynn Marentette said...

Dean,

Thanks! I heard a rumor that Firefox is coming out with a multi-touch enabled browser. That would be a useful development!