LG.Philips 52-Inch Multi-Touch Screen

Gizmodo and Engadget both have articles on this LCD touch screen and both show a picture of Google Earth being demonstrated.


If you look past the cute girl, you can see Google Earth

52-inch Multi-touch Screen – World’s Largest Multi-touch Display
LG.Philips LCD’s 52-inch multi-touch panel for public and interactive displays is not only the world’s largest, it is also one of the most responsive, able to recognize input from either a touch of a finger or more precise writing instruments. It uses an infrared image sensor that gives it the ability to recognize two separate touch points as well as gestures. It boasts some of the industry’s highest specifications, with a 90 Hz touch response time, 1920 x 1080 Full HD resolution and a light transmission rate of 95 to 100 percent.

What caught my eye was how thin this unit is and there is no hacking here to get a touch table. We could be seeing this technology explode here in a few months.

18 Comments

  1. J Wallis says:

    I’ll only take it if I can get the mouse pointer too.

  2. Lefty says:

    Mouse pointer? What about the girl? ;)

    I’m impressed though. Looks much thinner than the ESRI touch table though I haven’t seen that one in a year so maybe they are thinner as well.

  3. JRigs says:

    We know what caught your eyes…. :-P

  4. Al Pascual says:

    Microsoft Surface already has a system like that in production: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

    Cheers
    Al

  5. mfd says:

    I really like the raised relief map. The mountains are really large and seem to just burst out on the screen -

    oops, sorry, the mountains were not on the screen

  6. Kerry says:

    Yes, you can almost sense the relief. Definitely having the urge to create contours…. what interval..?

  7. J Wallis says:

    Why don’t we ever have demonstrators like this at the ESRI conferences? All I ever encounter are these crotchety old guys who brag about being around since ArcCAD. Come on..throw me a bone..er something.

  8. Bill says:

    @J Wallis

    Apparently you weren’t there a couple of years ago when Thales had the demonstrators and served beer in the exhibit hall. Talk about generating foot traffic!

  9. J Wallis says:

    Yeah, someone would have to get me drunk to use their equipment, so that makes sense.

  10. Bill says:

    Excellent point!

  11. Rob says:

    Just an observation here but in Al Pascual’s link I noticed MS, while I see them marketing Silver Light their site is in Flex/Flash.
    Wonder why they don’t use their own product?

  12. RonV says:

    I want to see a touch table combined with holograms. That would be cool!!!

  13. Canuck says:

    @J Wallis

    You must have missed it a couple years ago when the Chargers cheerleaders did their photoshoot at the fountains outside the Marriott! :-)

  14. mfd says:

    I want to see a touch table combined with holograms. That would be cool!!!

    RonV,

    I thought it was a touch table, afterwards I was quickly removed from the arena by security :-)

  15. Blizzardice says:

    Yes but what is the cost and will it work with ArcMap and or ArcReader and even ArcExplorer? For the amount of Labor I spend each year making updated wall maps I bet I could justify a damn pretty penny on something like this that isnt out of date the next business day.

  16. bender says:

    um… even a 1920 x 1080 google patchwork map
    gis is sooo unsexy. you’ll need a (korean) cutie to pimp it up. but esri maps are so sexy, you only need a bearded pal to present them. ;-)
    btw: i like the 3 yellow blobs on the right.

  17. Claude says:

    can you post a higher res version of this picture. This image pixelates when i use it as a desktop background :)

  18. ewwww says:

    ewww Claude!!!! What are you trying to do with that higher resolution image. I need to go wash off now…