Light
Blue Optics
(LBO) today announced its first product -
Light Touch™ - an interactive projector that turns any flat surface
into a 10” touch screen. Light Touch™not only frees
multimedia content from the confines of the small screen, but also lets
users interact with that content in the same way as they expect to on
their other hand-held devices - using touch technology. Light Touch is a
reference product and will be made available to Light Blue Optics’ OEM
customers and other strategic partners. An invite-only product launch
will take place tomorrow evening (6 Jan 2010) at the Consumer
Electronics Show (CES 10) in Las Vegas.
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Light Touch™ incorporates LBO’s proprietary holographic laser
projection technology (HLP™), creating bright, high-quality WVGA
resolution video images that are always in focus. HLP™ enables extremely
wide throw angles, resulting in large images being created at close
proximity to the projector’s aperture. HLP can also correct for
distortion and optical aberrations in software, enabling novel table-top
projection. A unique optical architecture delivers a Class 1 laser
safety classification making HLP™ and devices that incorporate it eye
safe.
Light Touch™ includes an infra-red touch sensing system that transforms
the projected image into a virtual 10” touch screen. The user can
control the projector and interact with multimedia content and
applications simply by touching the projected image. Light Touch™ runs
Adobe Flash Lite 3.1, leveraging a large existing developer community
and enabling the rapid development of innovative applications. WiFi
and Bluetooth connectivity enable device to device communication and
applications that connect directly to the internet such as social
networking, multimedia sharing and electronic point of sale. Light Touch
™ is equipped with 2GB of onboard Flash memory and has a Micro SD card
slot that supports up to 32GB. Light Touch™ can be wall powered or
battery operated, with a run-time of 2 hours before recharging is
required.
Light Blue Optics’ CEO, Chris Harris said “At LBO, we believe that
today’s consumer is no longer a passive viewer of multimedia content.
People expect to engage, interact and share content and our first
product enables them to do that in new and exciting ways. The opportunities
for Light Touch™ extend beyond consumer electronics into retail spaces,
the workplace and the home - profoundly changing the way people
interact with multimedia content and the built environment. By enabling
such diverse and compelling use cases, LBO aims to become the world’s
leading supplier of miniature projection systems.”
Light Touch™ has been named a CES Innovations Honoree in two
categories: Media Players and Personal Electronics.
Notes to Editors:
Light
Blue Optics
(
www.lightblueoptics.com
)
Light Blue Optics is a privately-funded company developing and supplying
miniature projection systems for use in high volume applications in
markets including automotive, digital signage and consumer electronics.
Powered by our proprietary HLP™ technology, our products create bright,
high-resolution images that are always in focus, work on all manner of
surface, and can even respond to touch. We believe that HLP™ technology
will soon become ubiquitous – seamlessly integrated into our homes,
vehicles and personal devices, and changing the way we see and interact
with the world.
Light Blue Optics is headquartered in Cambridge, UK with a Development
Facility in Colorado Springs, USA. The Company is funded by a syndicate
of investors including Robert
Bosch Venture Capital, Earlybird
Venture Capital, Capital-E,
NESTA
and Encore
Ventures, a division of DFJ
Esprit
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Light Blue Optics
To request an invitation to the
Light
Touch™ product launch, please contact:
Tamara Roukaerts,
Director of Communications
+44 (0)1223 428525
tamara.roukaerts@lightblueoptics.com
twitter:
@lightblueoptics