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Albatron Ushers-Forth Optical Touch Monitor Technology

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Albatron Technology has announced its new Optical Touch Monitor (OTM), on course with a new era of Multi Touch Panel monitors. At NVISION '08, multi-touch panels were lauded by Jen-Hsun Huang in his keynote speech as being one of the most exciting emerging technologies. Multi-Touch was demonstrated last year by Bill Gates using beta versions of Windows 7. And who could forget Tom Cruise dragging, wiping, and tapping away in Spielberg's Sci-Fi classic, Minority Report. Introduced as a development version at the most recent Computex, the Albatron OTM has since been fine-tuned with improved technology to bolster performance and prepare it for the consumer market.



How is an Optical Touch Monitor different from traditional touch monitors?

The difference between an Optical Touch Panel and a traditional touch panel lie in the sensing material, that make up the screen itself. In a traditional touch panel monitor (capacitive, resistance types), "sensing" technology is embedded into every square inch of the screen. In Albatron's OTM, there is absolutely NO "sensing" technology in the screen per-se; movement is all tracked with infrared light, optical sensors and reflection bars surrounding the screen on the edges of the frame.

Optical Monitor Advantages versus Traditional Touch Monitors
This new optical technology offers many advantages to traditional capacitive and resistive touch monitors.
  • The OTM requires no recalibration as opposed to traditional touch monitors that typically require recalibration after extended use.
  • OTM is more cost effective. When manufacturing larger and larger traditional touch screens, there is a proportional increase in the cost of "sensing" material, since the technology is embedded into the screen . As mentioned, there is no "sensing" material in an OTM screen itself, so increasing the size of the monitor does not result in a proportional increase in the cost of "sensing" material (there is only a marginal increase in general costs due to materials needed for producing a larger product).
  • OTM monitors are more durable. In a traditional touch monitor, wear and tear from tapping, prodding, scraping, dragging can damage the "sensing" material on the screen. Since the "sensing" material is not embedded into the screen on an OTM, it is impossible to damage the "sensing" capabilities through normal use.
  • OTM has multi-touch capabilities (manipulating the screen with more than one finger). Traditional touch panels are incapable of multi-touch capabilities.
  • OTM can grow to unlimited size. Because of the simple structure of OTM technology, these monitors can theoretically be built as large as you need. Traditional touch monitors, however, are limited to 15" or less.
  • OTM display is more brilliant than traditional touch monitors because the screen itself is not obstructed with embedded sensing hardware.

Touch Panel Applications- As far as your imagination can reach.

Aside from obvious educational opportunities for children and enhanced multimedia experience, the Touch Panel possibilities are endless. Already, we've seen awesome multi-touch adaptations by Google-Earth, YouTube and other web applications. 3D Medical imaging display, digital musical instruments, art (sculpture and painting), gaming, hand writing applications, advertising all have great potential for large screen touch panels.

OTM specifications

The first shipments of the OTM monitor will have a 21.5" screen with FULL HD capabilities. Performance reaches 120 points/second refresh rates, which is higher than most touch monitors which rarely exceed 100 points/second. The connectors include a DVI port, DSub port which receive traditional video and graphics from a PC. An Audio Line-Out port can attach to external speakers. A USB 2.0 connector is used to relay "touch" navigation information to the PC. The OTM supports both Windows XP and Vista.

Touch Panel Technology - All aboard!

It's cost effective, more durable, larger and has multi-touch capabilities. So what is not to like about Albatron's new OTM monitors? And with Windows 7 on the horizon, supporting multi-touch, Albatron expects a wave of new applications and touch panel ideas flooding the market. The OTM is expected to reach the market in March of 2009.

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At last something different from the old capacitive/resistance touch technology. I think that it was originally developed in 70s. No need to apply pressure when writing with this new OTM . Now phone displays with some 9H-hardness glass or scratch resistant plastic will be indestructible, especially OLED ones .
 
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This is not gonna work for me. I couldnt stand using a monitor that has fingerprints all over it.
 
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I think this is going to be very expensive for the time being, and is probably going to be mainstreamed across phones and laptops.

Fingerprints . . . Theres always going to be a fingerprint on one of these units. Even if you wash your hands, or wear a glove, or use the touchpen. Somehow, a fingerprint will occur. But then thats when we can turn the device off and clean it.
 
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