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HoloTouch® is unique and widely patented.  HoloTouch vastly exceeds capabilities of conventional human-machine interfaces and outperforms them.  Here are just some of the reasons:

• HoloTouch HMIs are entirely touchless
• with no moving parts, HoloTouch HMIs are indestructible - impervious to shock, dirt, moisture, hard use and other hazards of customers and workplaces
• sterile operation - whether in healthcare, high-traffic consumer applications or other settings, HoloTouch HMIs neatly bypass hygiene issues, because there's nothing to touch in operating them
• full-color, 3D holographic images of HoloTouch HMIs draw customers in and hold their attention
• people-friendly , easy-to-use HoloTouch HMIs provide comfortable, reliable operation where conventional keys and buttons have shrunk below normal finger sizes and fingers tire from pounding keys and buttons
• HoloTouch interfaces are friction-less and have longer life cycles than conventional switches and HMIs
• HoloTouch HMIs compare favorably in cost with conventional interfaces, both initially and over time,
• their physical designs are appealing and very flexible
• HoloTouch HMIs enhance competitive positions by underlining commitment to newest and best technology

There are no practical barriers to using HoloTouch to improve and enhance many types of electronic equipment, such as automotive, banking, factory-floor, gaming, kiosk, leisure, medical, military, personal and home electronics and toy products

HMIs using HoloTouch empower operators to enter commands and data into a wide range of electronic equipment by simply passing a finger through holographic images of what would otherwise be buttoons or keys of keypads or keyboards, floating in the air at a convenient location. An infrared sensor detects intrusion of a finger into those images, identifies which command has been selected and transmits that selection to the equipment's internal software, in much the same way pressing a button on any ordinary keyboard would.  HoloTouch interfaces provide output to USB, serial and other PC ports as well as relay output to other devices such as PLCs.

PERSONAL ELECTRONICS Combining holographic images of what would otherwise be the buttons of cell phones, PDAs, laptops, video games or hand-helds with a wave sensor scanning the plane of those images, HoloTouch enhances comfortable, reliable operation, where keypad size has shrunk below normal finger size, and continues to dwindle. With HoloTouch, images of keypads can be larger than the underlying equipment. Holographic images of the keypad are projected into the air. An infra-red detector detects intrusion of a finger into those images, identifies which number or symbol has been selected, and transmits that selection to the equipment.


MILITARY AND OTHER RUGGED APPLICATIONS Where computer keyboards and keypads are regularly subjected to contaminants, dirt, moisture or shock, whether on the factory floor, outdoors or in the military, HoloTouch, solves that problem.  Operating electronics using HoloTouch involves no moving parts and nothing to break. Holographic images of what would otherwise be the keypad or computer keyboard are projected into the air. An infra-red detector intrusion of a finger into those images, identifies which command has been selected, and transmits that selection to the equipment, all in a completely sealed unit.


MEDICAL AND HIGH-TRAFFIC CONSUMER APPLICATIONS Because there's nothing to physically touch using HoloTouch, healthcare personnel gain direct, reliable control of operating room equipment, where conventional healthcare HMIs  must be operated by someone not "scrubbed up" because computer keyboards can never be effectively sterilized. ATM's, kiosk and point-of-sale equipment under the onslaught of large numbers of consumers can be precisely operated using HoloTouch without concern about secondary infection issues. Holographic images of what would otherwise be computer keyboards, keypads or touch-screens are projected into the air at a considerable distance from the equipment. An infra-red detector notices the intrusion of a finger into the desired portion of those images, identifies which number or symbol has been selected, and transmits that selection to the equipment and its display function.


HoloTouch is partnering with manufacturers of ATM, automotive, consumer electronics, gaming, home appliance, kiosk, leisure, medical and military equipment to work out the details of adapting its innovative technology to their specific devices.


HoloTouch technology is protected by US patent 6,377,238, US Patent 7,054,045 U.K. Patent 229271 and Canadian Patent 2,160,245, with patents pending in the European Union and other major industrialized countries. HoloTouch is registered as a trademark in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.