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The Magical World of Tablets and Touchscreens
(CIO.com)

Four years ago, Berg came across the HP TouchSmart PC with NextWindow optical touch screen technology. Like the story of Disney's Rapunzel, the touch technology freed him from the bonds of the wicked trackball. "The optical touch is beautiful," he says. "I can use my head wand and I don't even have to touch the screen.

Govt gives $50m to aid NZ research
(NZ Herald News)

The Government has announced a $50 million second round of research and development grants to successful high-tech businesses, with the biggest of the 19 grants going to Canadian-owned touch display maker NextWindow.

Olympic Museum Goes Interactive
(Inavate)

A travelling exhibition called Hope is starting life at the Olympic Museum in Lausanne before heading further afield to spread the message of the ‘Olympic dream’. It uses interactive media to strike up a dialogue with visitors, employing gesture recognition and touch technologies.

EIZO FlexScan Monitor Has the NextWindow Touch
(Digital Signage News)

EIZO is using the NextWindow 1900 Desktop Touch in its new tilt-able FlexScan computer monitors. Users can interact with the 1900 series while wearing gloves, as in medical environments. It also provides traditional touch functions such as point, click, drag and drop, as well as multitouch functions like pan, pinch, double-tap and scroll.

Asia Pacific Deloitte Technology Fast 500 announced (Scoop Independant News)

Asia Pacific Deloitte Technology Fast 500 announced, NextWindow at #32

IT Kiosks Ride Touch-Screen Wave (Smarter Technology)

The new wave of touch-screen mania triggered by the phenomenal success of Apple's iPad has touched off not only a competing tablet frenzy—like HP's Slate and Samsung's Galaxy Tab—but is also prompting IT organizations worldwide to start offering NextWindow-based public information centers in the increasingly familiar touch format.

Hard 'Rockin’ the Customer Experience (Hospitality Technology)

Currently, several Hard Rock Cafe locations, including Seattle, Dallas, Detroit and Berlin, have interactive RockWall Solo displays installed, to showcase thousands of Hard Rock memorabilia items to customers. The touch technology behind the display is the NextWindow 2150 touch screen, which sits on top of a 52-inch NEC monitor (integrated by Horizon Display. So far, the displays have been extremely popular with Hard Rock Cafe visitors.

Microsoft Technology Centers Use Touch to Teach (CIO.com)

Microsoft's Chicago tech center is using giant touch screens to inform customers on SharePoint and other Microsoft products. The display uses NextWindow technology and was built and installed by Illinois-based design firm Ravenswood Studio.

NZ’s NextWindow, Microsoft team on double bed-sized touchscreen (NBR)

Microsoft has already deployed one of the screens at its Technology Center in Chicago. The company says it will use the jumbo display to demonstrate Microsoft multi-touch capabilities and show customers how they could use the technology in their own workplaces.

Artists on NextWindow Touch Screens
(Interactive Multimedia Technology)

Here is a video from NextWindow's "Digital Art Day"- watch how four artists use various tools, including brushes, to interact with a NextWindow screen.

Graybeards Doesn't Know Much About Whiteboards (WSJ)

Smart says most interactive whiteboard revenue has traditionally been from the education market, but the company believes “additional attractive opportunities exist in the business and government markets.” The company bought New Zealand-based NextWindow in April, paying $82 million in cash. The deal is expected to help the whiteboard business, but Smart said “we also expect that NextWindow’s existing relationships with leading PC display manufacturers and other electronics equipment manufacturers will accelerate our ability to expand into the market for interactive touch products other than interactive whiteboards.”

Touchscreens up to 52-inches Debut from NextWindow (NextGen Blog)

Is your iPad too small? How about 52-inches--is that big enough for you? Look for giant touchscreen displays in kiosks and other commercial settings by the end of the year.

BNET TV interview with David Villarina

NextWindow’s David Villarina speaks with a reporter from BNET at the InfoComm 2010 exhibition about the company's technology and markets.

Touchscreens: A Key Enabler of Tablet Computing (PC Mag Blog)

At the Society for Information Display (SID) Display Week show this week, there must have been at least forty different vendors with touch screen technologies. NextWindow, which makes many of the touch screen technologies used on desktops and all-in-ones, was pushing its optical touch solutions, which you'll see in a number of all-in-one and desktop computers, including those from HP and Dell.

SMART Technologies’ acquisition of NextWindow: A “smart window” to the world (Innovative Interactivity)

I’ve been fond of SmartBoards and NextWindow touch-screen displays for many years. I used a large NextWindow touch-screen display for a couple of projects in 2007 when I was taking courses in human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing at UNC-Charlotte. I loved the display’s high-resolution and great optical touch responsiveness.

Smart Technologies acquires NextWindow to move into touch screen business (Venture Beat)

Touchscreens are the hottest thing in user interfaces for everything from phones to laptops to tablet computers such as the iPad. So it’s no surprise that Canada’s Smart Technologies has acquired New Zealand touchscreen technology maker NextWindow.

SMART Technologies Acquires NextWindow: Consolidation in Optical Imaging Touch Screens (DisplaySearch)

Although both companies are using optical imaging touch technology, their target markets are different. As SMART’s CEO, Nancy Knowlton indicated that NextWindow’s “business model, patent portfolio and focus on the consumer market make it an attractive acquisition for us.”

Canadian company snaps up NZ tech firm (NZ Herald)

Al Monro said Next Window's investors - primarily overseas venture capital and private equity firms - would be very pleased with the outcome of the sale. "It gives [Next Window] access to a bigger company, a wider range of IP and a bigger balance sheet," he said.

Touch-Screen Technology in the Enterprise? (Windows IT Pro)

You might think touch-screen is more suited to the entertainment realm, but I'm seeing some definite potential for the enterprise. Monro spoke of a bank in Houston that's using a TouchSmart solution in one of its branches: "It allows a customer to chat with a 'virtual loan officer' via the use of a webcam and touch applications." Also, he said, "Some automotive dealers are deploying interactive displays to allow prospective new car buyers to configure their own vehicle with various options."

With The Proliferation Of Multi-Touch Technologies, The Exciting New Future Of Physical Interactivity Will Be Like Playing Tai-Chi (Innovation Playground blog)

These mid-size touch screen OEM manufacturers instead of supplying companies such as HP, LG, Samsung, Toshiba and Sony may end up competing against them. These companies include FlatFrog, RPO, Microsoft, NextWindow, TouchCo and Vissumo.

Windows 7 and NextWindow (Windows7news.com)

NextWindow has been instrumental in working with Microsoft to develop the Windows 7 Logo test. This means, that a company wishing to display the Windows 7 Logo for touch technology, must pass a series of technology tests.

Getting in Touch (Sound & Communications)

NextWindow’s Anthony Uhrick discusses trends in the large-format industry in this white paper. "For resellers and integrators, there's no time like the present to recover margins in the commoditized display resale market by offering customers a richer value-add solution based on interactive touch screens."

劃時代頂尖科技 (PC Magazine Forward Thinking 部落格）

我認真地考慮了眾多適合放進名單裡的先進技術，包括「Web 2.0」社交網路，象徵性的網站有 MySpace、Digg、Delicious、Flickr、YouTube 與 Facebook 等作為代表；GPU 演算，主要因 Nvidia 而普及化；觸控技術，由技術供應商如 Wacom 與 NextWindow 的尖端產品以及 Microsoft、Apple 與 HP 等廠牌開發的使用者界面為基礎…

Windows 7 將加速觸控螢幕電腦的蓬勃發展 (USA Today)

將滑鼠與鍵盤冷落一旁充其量只能滿足觸碰執行的需求。事實上，觸控功能應該是用來擴增和補充滑鼠與鍵盤的不足，而不是將其取代。「有些時候，使用觸控就是比較方便，」Al Monro 表示。他是 NextWindow 的紐西蘭營運處總執行長，為主要製造商供應光學多點觸控顯示器。

觸控螢幕：即將走入企業 (IT Expert Voice)

電子病歷系統就是一個例子，醫生跟護士存取該系統來取得病患的病史與用藥記錄等資料。NextWindow 的產品行銷經理 Geoff Walker 表示︰「取用資訊比建立資訊更適合使用觸控功能。」

多點觸控向大尺寸螢幕推進：個人電腦 (BusinessWeek)

多點觸控筆電與桌上型顯示器的降價讓我們相信，將能夠很快在許多的主流個人電腦上看見多點觸控的應用，即使應用程式仍相對局限。多點觸控筆電技術主要來自以色列新興網路公司 N-trig，桌上型顯示器則主要來自紐西蘭的 NextWindow 的技術。

Dell Studio One 觸控螢幕 Windows 7 個人電腦評介 (PC Perspective)

Windows 7 除整合式螢幕鍵盤之外，還包含令人驚豔的手寫辨識程式，讓您使用手指、或甚至用圓珠筆頭進行輸入。NextWindow 其中一項優勢是讓您可以使用任何工具當作觸控筆或指向裝置，然後輕輕觸壓即可完成輸入。

觸控螢幕技術、Windows 7、平板電腦 (OS News)

我們可以確定的是，現在正是您購買觸控螢幕的最佳時機。Dell Studio One 只需花費美金 1024 元，對一台個人電腦來說也許稍嫌昂貴，但若是走在流行尖端的全功能電腦可是物超所值。規格類似的 iMac 即要價美金 1199 元。NextWindow 的光學觸控螢幕技術較您以往使用過的傳統觸控螢幕具更多優點，其中一點是針對多點觸控與捏取移動功能的支援，您可能已經在 iPhone 體驗過了。

Microsoft 在個人電腦的下一世代樹立優勢 (Financial Times)

NextWindow 產品行銷經理 Geoff Walker 在最近一次展示會中告訴媒體，軟體開發者目前只針對 Windows 7 開發質樸且用途單調的應用程式。NextWindow 的光學觸控技術為 Dell、HP 與 Sony 產品所採用。

深度訪談: Al Monro
(Computerworld)

Competerworld 記者 Eric Lai 這次對 NextWindow 總裁 Al Monro 進行的訪談內容包括觸控式個人電腦市場、光學觸控技術，以及觸控螢幕作為個人電腦新使用者介面的潛力發展。「大家還是會繼續使用鍵盤與滑鼠，」Monro 表示。「但是在某些情況下將會更適合用直覺式的觸控來進行操作。」

新興顯示器：觸控螢幕的發展 (PC Magazine 部落格)

NextWindow 的 Geoff Walker 在 DisplaySearch 的「新興顯示器會議」(Emerging Displays Conference) 中表示，他預期觸控螢幕將應用在針對 Windows 7 所設計百分之七十的全功能電腦、百分之二十的監視器，以及百分之十的筆記型電腦。