Imagine when you walk into a sales office to find a beautiful house and the sales officer invites you take a seat and touches the surface of the table in front of you. Then an electronic house catalogue appears with a plan of each floor which can be zoomed-in on and rotated any angle that you wish to view.

This is one of the examples that multi-touch surface table from its prototype can be applied in the property industry said FireOneOne’s Chief Technical Officer, Nopphorn Danchainam.

Multi-touch Table

The prototype can be applied in the food and beverage business such as in pubs when a customer pushes the glass of wine on the table, a camera under the table can detect which kind of wine it is and retrieve video data in the system about details of that wine and its vintage.

Customers can even push the table surface to invite a girl nearby to play interactive games in order to flirt or make a new relationship.

There are also business applications which can be used in banking. A customer can go into a bank and select and input the service request and detailed information on the surface table and print out the service form instead of the traditional paper form.

The company decided to develop such applications to leverage new opportunities and technology by adding multi-touch technology from Windows 7 to serve the new digital lifestyle of customer while helping companies find new revenue streams.

“This is first time that we can build and tailor-made surface tables and apply it in business which helps lower the cost of investment for businesses in Thailand. In the past such technology would have cost around 600,000-700,000 baht, but local-made technology may help to reduce at least 30 percent depending on the volume and complexity of the system,” Nopphorn said.

The company is looking to expand its international market and is in discussion with potential partners that will help to expand its technology to the Middle East.

From: http://www.bangkokpost.com/tech/technews/26833/promising-start-for-prototype