Jef Han's multitouch screen - coming to a school near you

Well, almost. Promethean are launching a new pen tool that allows multi-input to its boards, that is, several people can manipulate material at once on the board. This is bringing the multitouch screen technology I was featuring in a video presentation last week, which at that point I was gambling on entering schools in a year or two, right into focus as a product you can buy at reasonable price for your schools right now.

I hope East Lothian might buy one or two sets for the interactive whiteboard maths project to see if they can get even more interactivity going on in mathematics. (Via Engadget ,via Ian). If you want to get a flavour for why multi-touch interactive whiteboards are so much better than the existing tech go and take a look at MIT's clear glass version on the TED Talks, or click the video below to start playing.

Comments

[Russell Dyas]

I have to say I saw the Microsoft version of the MIT product (Surface)

To me thing that will make this kind of technology great in education setting. Is the software that can be written for it.

Russell Dyas