Carroll Touch sponsors 1996 NewMedia INVISION Awards; Annual event honors multimedia achievements and innovations.ROUND ROCK, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 14, 1996--Carroll Touch, a leading provider of touch screens and systems designed for the unique requirements of the human-machine interface, is helping to shape the future of the multimedia industry with its 1996 sponsorship of the NewMedia INVISION Awards, an annual industry program that recognizes technical excellence and creativity in multimedia applications, including kiosks, CD-ROMs and online sites. "Carroll Touch is pleased to be a sponsor of the NewMedia INVISION awards for the second year," said David Martin David Martin may refer to: Politicians
The Passage to Vietnam CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). which won a NewMedia INVISION Award last year, was displayed on an interactive kiosk An Interactive kiosk is a computer terminal that provides information access via electronic methods. Interactive kiosks sometimes resemble telephone booths, but can also be used while sitting on a bench or chair. which featured a Carroll Touch guided wave guided wave n. An electromagnetic or acoustic wave transmitted by a process that limits its physical dispersion along the length of its transmission. touchscreen. The kiosk, which displayed the award-winning Vietnam photography collection in the San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden airport and at COMDEX/Fall last year, proved an ideal vehicle for demonstrating Carroll Touch's capabilities for enabling easy public access to high-quality multimedia programs through the use of intuitive touch interfaces. "The NewMedia INVISION Awards have become the industry's most respected and have consistently identified new leaders in applications and enabling technologies," said Susan Lake, executive director of the awards program. "Sponsorship by industry leaders such as Carroll Touch is an important part of making the awards a success each year." Award winners are selected within multiple categories by a panel of creative, business, high technology and multimedia experts. General categories are Entertainment and Edutainment Educational material that is also entertaining. (application) edutainment - Interactive education and entertainment services or software, usually supplied commercially via a cable network or on CD-ROM. , Information and Reference, Education, Training and Support, Sales and Marketing, Personal and Non-Profit Projects, and Technical and Creative Excellence. This year, 30 new online categories have been added in recognition of the growing importance of multimedia presence on the World Wide Web. Attendees of COMDEX/Spring, June 3-6 in Chicago, will have the opportunity to test many of the NewMedia INVISION Award winning applications at the Playland product showcase. Playland is located on the COMDEX The former, premier computer trade show in the U.S. Although it grew into an end user event, it was originally created for dealers and distributors (it was the COMputer Dealers EXposition). show floor and gives attendees "hands-on" experience with the products. The winning applications are demonstrated by their developers. The special ceremony on June 3 honoring awards of excellence and best of show will be featured on the Jones Computer Network and Mind Extension University. Carroll Touch, a division of AMP Inc., was founded in 1973. Carroll Touch pioneered scanning infrared touch technology in the 1970's and today is also the market leader for guided acoustic wave technology applications. Carroll Touch was the first in its industry to offer a comprehensive five-year warranty and the first major touch vendor to achieve ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 certification. CONTACT: Carroll Touch, Round Rock Mark Austin Mark Austin (born November 1, 1958) is an Emmy-award winning British journalist and anchor of the ITV News at 10.30 and co-presenter of the ITV Evening News. , 512/344-5615 |
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