Stantum Technologie is introducing a new version of its SMK series of multi-touch demo, evaluation and development kits, which enable vendors and OEMs to evaluate the performance of Stantum’s technology and develop their own multi-touch applications.
Stantum, headquartered in Bordeaux, France, has been the pioneering company in multi-touch display technology since 2002, and in 2005 was the first company to market commercial products using a truly reliable multi-touch user interface. Today, Stantum’s breakthrough technology portfolio is available under license for products covering every aspect of multi-touch interaction: touch panels, multi-touch controllers, intellectual property cores, and multi-touch software framework.
The new version, which features a 4.3-inch touch panel, was formally announced next week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where Stantum demonstrated it on a Texas Instruments OMAP35xx platform to illustrate on an industry-standard mobile platform the major advantages of its multi-touch technology.
The demo is based on a beta version of Touch Park(TM), Stantum’s new multi-touch framework. It simulates a mobile device user interface demonstrating Stantum’s multi-touch performance in various types of applications, such as address book, drawing, picture resize, and gaming.
At MWC, Stantum is also exhibiting its 2.5- and 3.5-inch SMK kits, whose state-of-the-art touch panels boast the highest performance in transparency (83% transmission) and unprecedented low activation force (10g) meaning the lightest touch will activate the sensors.
Like the SMK-2.5 and 3.5, the new SMK-4.3 features:
- Stantum’s patented PMatrix(TM), a resistive multi-touch detection platform – now with finger-pressure detection – that lets users simultaneously move an unlimited number of fingers, fingernails or utensils (such as styli) on a screen; and
- Hardware kit made of a resistive-based touch-screen sensor, a multi-touch controller board with a USB connection to the application host processor; and
- Drivers for the Windows operating systems.
SMK series demo, evaluation and development kits provide the best of both worlds – the optical performance and soft touch of a capacitive touch screen and the versatility and low cost of resistive touch screens.
The videos below were recorded by Engadget at Mobile World Congress demonstrating the technology in action.
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More information is available on Stantum’s web site at www.stantum.com.