Surface computing:

GestureTek’s award-winning Illuminate Multi-Touch Table is a user-friendly surface

computing technology offered in nearly any shape or size to suit any requirement. The
turnkey multi-touch screen display stands 36" high, with a 30, 40 or 55” diagonal gesture-
controlled screen, powerful multi-touch computer, projector, camera and speakers. Control
is via a multi-point or multi-touch interface. GestureTek’s full library of GestureFX special
effects applications can be included in the multi-touchdisplay table. The GestTable 42" LCD
Multi-Touch system is another popular multi-touch option for GestureTek customers.
GestDisplay comes as a turnkey table or as shallow panels that can be hung on the wall or
built into custom furniture designs. Systems are modular and can be connected together for
connected interactivity across multiple screens.

Want something really unique? Let multi-touch technology transform your ordinary bar,
counter, wall or retail window into an interactive multi-touch computing surface.
GestureTek’s multi-touch technologylets people use hand and finger gestures to interact
with multi-media content, access corporate information, play games, create special effects,
manipulate art and photographs, even view advertising, in a truly unique and compelling way.

Using patented, ‘Minority-Report’-style hand tracking and gesture recognition

sofware that has been proven in commercial use for more than three years, GestureTek is a
pioneer in delivering custom interactive multitouch tables and surface computer
displays. Installations have included a dynamic interactive map and way-finding
system for Samsung's retail showroom in New York’s Time Warner building, the world’s
largest interactive multi-touch surface computing table in Melbourne’s Eureka Tower, a
space-age multi-touch interactive table game for NASA and an engaging entertainment-
styleinteractive entertainment table for patrons of Alice Fazooli’s restaurant in Toronto.

GestureTek’s multi-touch technology has limitless applications for retail stores, stadiums,
corporate lobbies and foyers, corporate board rooms, showrooms, presentation centers,
nightclubs, restaurants, hotels, tourist attractions, tradeshows, interactive advertising, and
other public spaces where interactive kiosk-style multimedia is desired. We’ve even worked
with the military to integrate our exciting technology into their facilities.

A Surface computer is able to recognize physical objects from a paintbrush to a cell

phone and allows hands-on, direct control of content such as photos, music and
maps. Surface turns an ordinary tabletop into a dynamic surface that provides
interaction with all forms of digital content through natural gestures, touch and
physical objects.

The new product is aimed directly at hotels, retail establishments, restaurants and
public entertainment venues and should be commercially available towards the end
of the year.

It’s an interesting product in that it’s completely out of left field. Microsoft gives
examples of ordering a beverage during a meal with just the tap of a finger and
quickly browsing through music and dragging favorite songs onto a personal playlist
by moving a finger across the screen. Build this into a bar and you’d get one-touch
beer service although I’m not sure if they’ve found a way to work out when your
beer glass is empty so replenishment becomes automatic, maybe in a later version.
The practical uses for Surface at the point of sale are broad. This is touch screen
point of sale technology at a new level.