Back-to-School Supplies: N-trig DuoSense® Pen and Multi-Touch Enriches Educational Experience in Classrooms

Fingertips and Pens Enable Teachers & Students to Create & Educate on Computer Screens

KFAR SABA, Israel & AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As we begin to head back-to-school, educators, parents and students alike are looking for cutting-edge technologies that not only increase learning, but drive creativity, collaboration and productivity. The N-trig DuoSense true multi-touch and pen solution, incorporated in various HP, Dell, and Lenovo products and soon to be available in slates and additional consumer notebooks, is providing a versatile computing environment for students and educators from elementary school through B-school.

“by 2015, more than 50 percent of PCs purchased for users under the age of 15 will have touchscreens, up from fewer than two percent in 2009.”

According to a recent Gartner report, If Touch Works Everywhere Else, Why Not on PCs?* “by 2015, more than 50 percent of PCs purchased for users under the age of 15 will have touchscreens, up from fewer than two percent in 2009.” The combination of simultaneous multi-touch and digital pen functionality enables students to streamline their studies by offering them the ability to manipulate and move items and data directly on their screen, as well as take down notes, or write down homework assignments as smoothly as they would on a pad of paper, allowing for new levels of accuracy and precision.

The N-trig DuoSense combines true multi-touch with more than four fingers on screen, providing an intuitive navigation and rich gesture vocabulary, together with pen input, which is extremely useful in a wide variety of scholastic-related scenarios, such as annotation and note taking.

• ABCs or 123s – practice handwriting or math tables using either fingertips or a pen
• Ph.D. on the Road – professors can now directly send written feedback on a student’s dissertation
• Sick Day? – fellow students can send class notes directly from their digital textbook
• Group Projects – utilize the collaborative capabilities of true multi-touch when creating and presenting projects, whether in B-school or grade school
• Teacher Lesson Plans – share PowerPoint presentations with colleagues in real time with notes, photos and details
• Save a Tree! – Write in your digital textbook! with the advent of digital books, students can take notes – green style with no need for pens, pencils, ink or even paper
• Show & Tell – jot down an idea in a brainstorm and immediately email to a classmate

“Parents can now correct their child’s homework with a simple tap of the screen,” says Abi Solomon, director of marketing, N-trig. “DuoSense true multi-touch and pen capabilities enable students and teachers to have much more versatility in how they interact with their computers, helping to broaden the levels of communication, and enabling students and teachers to discover more efficient and productive ways in which to work together, both in the classroom and at home.”

While a number of consumer devices available on the market today, such as phones, notebooks or slates have touch capabilities, DuoSense-enabled laptops and devices allow for both the creation and consumption of content. With the various true multi-touch and pen options that DuoSense provides, users can easily switch between checking their homework online, to uploading photos on their Facebook page, to creating unique artwork in PhotoShop.

*Gartner Says More Than 50 Percent of PCs Purchased for Users Under the Age of 15 Will Have Touchscreens by 2015, April 7, 2010. http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1336913

About N-trig

DuoSense is a dual mode pen and true multi-touch interface specifically designed for today’s advanced computing world. The DuoSense dual-mode digitizer uses both pen and zero-pressure capacitive touch to provide a true Hands-on computing^® experience for mobile computers and other digital input products over a single device. DuoSense offers greater mobility and usability in the next generation of computing devices, enabling new market opportunities for OEMs and ODMs to introduce new computer products and for ISVs to develop innovative software applications that offer a more intuitive and interactive experience. N-trig is well versed in working with key manufacturers in the Far East and has a diverse and extensive supply chain. N-trig’s digitizers are easily integrated into existing technologies, support any type of LCD, and keep devices slim and light. N-trig’s solution can be implemented in a broad range of products from small notebooks to large format LCDs and can support a variety of applications for different market segments including, mobile, gaming, graphic and industrial design, entertainment and multimedia. Founded in 1999, N-trig maintains a global operation with its R&D facility and corporate headquarters and management in Kfar Saba, Israel, sales, OEM and ISV support in Austin, Texas and San Jose California, and ODM, operations and supply chain support in Taipei and Tokyo. For more information, please visit www.n-trig.com.

Contact Information:

Europe and Middle East:
N-trig, Ltd., 15 Atir Yeda Street, 2nd Floor, Kfar Saba 44643
Tel. [phone], Fax No. [phone], www.n-trig.com, [e-mail].

North America:
N-trig, Inc., 3409 Executive Center Drive, Suite 216, Austin, Texas 78731
Tel. [phone], www.n-trig.com, [e-mail].

Asia Pacific:
10F-2, #408, Rueiguang Rd., Neihu District, Taipei 114, Taiwan
Tel: + 886 2 2658 1337, Fax. + 886 2 2658 1367, www.n-trig.com, [e-mail]