August 30th, 2008 — Touch Screens in the News
From: ITWebb.com
[ Cape Town, 20 August 2008 ] - IT solutions and services provider, Datacentrix, won the tender to supply almost 900 Engen Petroleum Limited service stations across the country with new point of sale (POS) hardware.
Engen is currently rolling out approximately 1 800, HP PC desktops with Elo touch screens. This implementation is in [...]
August 30th, 2008 — Technology Corner, Touch Screens in the News
Tyco Electronics Ltd. has released two new high-res touchscreen monitors, both which feature a 100 per cent usable surface area.
The Elo TouchSystems 1900L and 2200L LCD touch monitor features a zero-bezel design, which removes the frame found on traditional computer screens. The company said the seamless glass surface will help enhance the high-definition experience for [...]
August 30th, 2008 — Technology Corner
From: HowStuffWorks.com
Touch-screen monitors have become more and more commonplace as their price has steadily dropped over the past decade. There are three basic systems that are used to recognize a person’s touch:
Resistive
Capacitive
Surface acoustic wave
The resistive system consists of a normal glass panel that is covered with a conductive and a resistive metallic layer. These two [...]
August 30th, 2008 — Technology Corner
BREAKTHROUGHS often beget other breakthroughs, and Apple’s slick use of touch technology on its iPhone has set touch-screen makers to salivating. An industry once relegated to niches now sees the potential for riches.
July 21st, 2008 — Acoustic Pulse Recognition, Technology Corner
By Julie Ritzer Ross
Vertical Systems Reseller Magazine
VARs looking to hit the ground running within the hospitality vertical - and reap the benefit of increased profits - would be well-served to use touch-screen sales as ammunition. The category is experiencing many new innovations on the technology front, and new applications for both restaurants and hotels are [...]
July 21st, 2008 — All-in-OneTerminals
By: Lisa Terry
Vertical Systems Reseller Magazine
The point of sale is getting smaller. All-in-one terminals, embraced early in hospitality, are growing in popularity among retailers for their small footprint, clean, cable-free aesthetics and easy installation - they can even be mounted on a wall. Sacrifices once made in serviceability and performance have largely been eliminated through improved [...]
June 19th, 2008 — Technology Corner
To the untrained eye touch screens are a marvel. You touch a part of the screen and it recognizes that you touched it and then performs an action. In our case, it rings up an item.
What you might not know is that there are different types of touch screen technologies and each has a purpose.
The [...]
June 11th, 2008 — Used Equipment
In my 25+ years in the point of sale business I have never seen anything as nasty as the inside of used point of sale equipment that came out of a restaurant. Remove the cover and you will find a haven for all sorts of vermin and the things that they leave behind. Besides being [...]
June 10th, 2008 — Technology Corner
Fanless point of sale terminals are making a dent in the traditional terminal marketplace. The idea of not having a fan inside the terminal sucking in greasy, dirty air has a lot of restaurant owners realizing a longer lifespan for their terminals.
The idea is a good one. Since restaurants are notorious for having grease floating [...]
June 9th, 2008 — All-in-OneTerminals, Touch Screens in the News
The Elo 17A2 touchcomputer offers expanded versatility with options for magnetic strip reader, rear-facing customer display, biometric fingerprint security, barcode scanner, speaker bar and DVD drive in a space-saving standard 17″ footprint
HARRISBURG, Pa – Jan. 14, 2008 — Continuing its history of innovative engineering, Elo TouchSystems has turned its recently announced 1729L 17″ integrated multifunction [...]
