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VEGAS, January 7, 2008 – Bordeaux, France-based JazzMutant, a pioneer
developer of multi-touch sensing technology, announced today at the
International CES that it is launching an OEM business unit in response
to a growing demand for its multi-touch solutions by electronic device
manufacturers and third-party system integrators.

In addition, the company is being renamed Stantum
Technologies http://www.stantum.com,
with JazzMutant remaining the brand name of its music product division,
which includes the award-winning Lemur multi-touch surface controller
for audio and media applications and Dexter laptop-sized surface
controller for digital audio workstations.

“Since we introduced Lemur, interest in our patented
technology has increased to the point that we are now working with
leading companies in various business areas, including aerospace,
consumer electronic and medical imagery, to mention just a few,” said
Guillaume Largillier, co-founder and CEO. “It was time for JazzMutant
to evolve into Stantum Technologies.”

The new OEM business unit will provide Stantum
customers with tailor-made, integrated and cost-effective multi-touch
solutions – by way of components or licenses – that precisely fit their
individual needs, according to Largillier.

“Our aim is to become the major stakeholder of
tomorrow’s man-machine interface industry, making the way people
interact with their working tools, computers or other electronic
devices more intuitive, playful and reliable. Providing our unique
tactile screen technology to companies on an OEM basis – as a one-stop
multi-touch solution – will also significantly strengthen our market
position.”

Stantum’s technology portfolio offers true multi-touch
interfaces that let users simultaneously move an unlimited number of
fingers, nails or utensils such as styli on a screen. Fitting any
form-factor, it enables integrators to design extremely innovative
multi-touch interfaces for their own products, thus simplifying the
development process and considerably shortening the product’s
time-to-market.

The latest in the JazzMutant line is the SMK-15.4 Multi-Touch Development Kit. This new product enables you to build the ultimate in multi-touch user-interfaces.

The development kit is based on Stantum’s five year experience in the design and production of multi-touch systems.

Included in the system is a multi-touch 15.4” WXGA 1280×800 display, embedding Stantum patented scanning and filtering technology, Pmatrix high resolution multi-touch sensor, and all the drivers you could need.

JazzMutant has announced that the Multi-Touch Sensing Technology available on an OEM basis.

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MIT’s Technology Review has an insightful 5-minute interview of Jeff Han speaking about the potential to provide more natural interfaces to virtual worlds such as SecondLife. He describes using a Multi Touch interface in Second Life as “swimming through the virtual world”.

Jeff Han: “It’s amazing the richness that they’re [virtual worlds] trying to convey … but it’s frustrating that we’re still trying to control that through the thin straw of a mouse and keyboard interface. ” [ via Technology Review ]

Jeff Han speaks about his opinions on Multi-Touch technology, the iPhone, and more at Nextfest 2007. He was showing off Perceptive Pixel’s 16 foot long multi-touch system, and the interviewer asked him about the UI, what he thinks of the iPhone and other systems, and how much he must hate Minority Report jokes. [Perceptive Pixel via NextFest]

Here’s another amateur video of Jeff Han of Perceptive Pixel demoing his advanced multi-touch system at WIRED NextFest 2007. Notice how much the kids love interacting with this.

Part 1:

Part 2:

(Note: the laughter on the footage is not the author of the video, it belonged to a mom who was enjoying her son’s excitement):

[ via Hustler of Culture ]

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