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The MT-50 is an
interactive Across the many fields concerned with interactivity, including information science, computer science, human-computer interaction, communication, and industrial design, there is little agreement over the meaning of the term "interactivity", but mo ...
multi-touch In computing, multi-touch is technology that enables a surface (a touchpad or touchscreen) to recognize the presence of more than one somatosensory system, point of contact with the surface at the same time. The origins of multitouch began at CER ...
table developed by
Ideum Ideum is a company based in Corrales, New Mexico, 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 Sa ...
.Strauss, Paul. 2/21/10
"Ideum MT-50 Multitouch Table: Surface Who?"
/ref> The table, now retired, had a 50" display with a 1280 x 720 resolution that used IR flood technology to register multi-user, multitouch gestures,Davies, Chris. 8/20/2009
"Ideum Updates 50-inch multitouch table"
/ref> and used the NUI Snowflake software package to handle optical processing.Humphries, Matthew. 2/6/2009
"Museums to get high-res multitouch table from Ideum."
It supported over 50 discrete touch points.Murph, Darren. 10/31/2009
"Ideum's 100" MT-50 Multitouch Table Supports 50 Simultaneous Touch Points"
/ref> The casing was built with aircraft-grade
aluminum Aluminium (aluminum in American and Canadian English) is a chemical element with the symbol Al and atomic number 13. Aluminium has a density lower than those of other common metals, at approximately one third that of steel. It has ...
and
tempered glass Tempered or toughened glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering puts the outer surfaces into compression and the interior into tension. ...
to allow it to stand heavy use in public environments. The MT-50 was replaced by the Ideum's next generation of multitouch tables, the 55" Platform and Pro tables.Fingas, Jon. 06/28/2012
"Ideum unveils speedy Platform and Pro multi-touch tables, says PixelSense ain't got nothin'"
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Company websiteHow to Build an MT-50 on Instructables

50" multitouch table is expensive, indestructable
Surface computing