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BeamOne wins 'most innovative human-machine interface' award

March 16, 2005

Chicago, Ill. - During award ceremonies held at the Peninsula Hotel in connection with National Manufacturing Week, Control Engineering's editorial director, David Greenfield, announced that the fully functional, touchless holographic interface, BeamOne of HoloTouch, and Atlantex Corp., had been overwhelmingly chosen by subscribers of Control Engineering as "most innovative human-machine interface featured in Control Engineering during the past year," according to a news release. Greenfield then presented a Control Engineering Engineers' Choice Award for 2004 to R. Douglas McPheters, president of HoloTouch. BeamOne, using patented HoloTouch technology, is seen by PCs as a keyboard and allows operators to control equipment by simply passing a finger through holographic images of "keys," floating in the air. The 1-inch-square holographic "keys" appear several inches in front of the hardware. Software included with BeamOne allows keystrokes to be configured and saved to BeamOne. The device connects through a standard USB port, and is bus-powered. In accepting the Control Engineering Engineers' Choice Award, McPheters commented: "We are grateful to the editors of Control Engineering for originally selecting BeamOne for its Editors' Choice Award from among hundreds of products reviewed. We appreciate this recognition by the engineering community of the potential impact of our revolutionary interface technology, which we envision bringing to many sectors, including consumer electronics, gaming, industrial controls, kiosks and medical equipment, just to name a few."