Ideum is a company based in

Corrales, New Mexico Corrales is a village in Sandoval County, New Mexico, United States. First farmed by Tiquex Pueblo people, chosen due to its proximity to the Rio Grande, as documented by Hispano farmers of Nuevo México in the late 1500s. Despite being a part ...

, United States that produces multitouch tables and walls, custom interactive exhibits, and custom hardware. The company was founded in 1999 by Jim Spadaccini, who created interactive exhibits for San Francisco's

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before becoming creative director at Ideum.Kamerick, Megan. 11/18/2011
"Ideum's touch tables bring exhibits, displays to life"
/ref> With strong ties to the museum and informal science education fields, many of the company's products and services are targeted at museums and other public spaces. In 2015 and 2016, the company was listed on the

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, list of the Fastest Growing Companies in the US. In 2017 and again in 2018, the company was honored as one of the "Best Entrepreneurial Companies in America" by Entrepreneur Magazine. The firm has a strong focus on developing interactive exhibits that seamlessly blend custom software, large scale hardware such as multitouch tables, and more recently new emerging technology such the use of fiducial markers and motion recognition. Ideum has also developed interactive video walls and has created state-of-the-art installations using projection mapping. Ideum's first product, MT-50 multitouch table garnered recognition for its high resolution and large surface. In 2011 and 2012, the company expanded its line to include three 55" multitouch tables, the Platform, Pro, and Pro Lab; two 46" tables, the Platform 46 full-sized and coffee tables; the Platform 32 coffee table; the 100" Pano table; and the 65" Presenter and Presenter 55 touch walls. Ideum has continued to update and expand this line. The company was first to offer many of these touch tables with 4K and with 3M touch technology. These multitouch displays support Ideum's proprietary software development framework, GestureWorks which is written in C++. The free Open Exhibits SDK allows for the development of multitouch multiuser applications in

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and more recently in partnership with

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, development has begun in C++. Directed by Ideum, the Open Exhibits initiative was sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Ideum has designed exhibits for the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Museum,

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, the

Adventure Science Center Adventure Science Center is a non-profit science museum for children located in Nashville, Tennessee. The museum features over 175 hands-on interactive exhibits with themes including biology, physics, visual perception, listening, mind, air and sp ...

in Nashville,

California Science Center The California Science Center (sometimes spelled California ScienCenter) is a state agency and museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, next to the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County and the University of Southern California. B ...

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Miami Science Museum The Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science (formerly known as the Miami Science Museum or Miami Science Museum and Space Transit Planetarium) is a science museum, planetarium, and aquarium located in Miami, Florida, United States. The museum ...

, and the

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among others.

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* {{official website, http://www.ideum.com/ Display technology companies Museum companies Companies based in Albuquerque, New Mexico