Smartpaper Networks Licenses Touchsmart Publishing to Distribute Next-Generation Textbooks Using a Unique "Touch User Interface"
Smartpaper Networks Corporation and Touchsmart Publishing LLC have completed an agreement that gives Touchsmart the exclusive right to distribute mathematics, science, and special education products based on Smartpaper intellectual property.
Los Gatos, CA & Cincinnati, OH (PRWEB) July 9, 2004 -- Smartpaper Networks has developed a breakthrough digital media delivery platform that finally unites print and digital media. Smartpaper is the only technology that transforms ordinary paper into a wireless control device, bringing printed pages to life by activating the power of video, audio, and the Internet with the touch of a finger. Smartpaper technology enables a multimedia learning process across multiple media delivery devices by linking text and graphics with audio and video, via personal computers, televisions with DVDs, game consoles, and other access points to the Internet. Smartpaper technology facilitates the delivery of educational content in multiple modes, effective for students with diverse learning styles and special needs not addressed by traditional learning methodologies and materials.
Touchsmart Publishing intends to create and distribute exciting and easy-to-use interactive textbooks that connect to digital content by touching pages of paper. Through the "touch user interface (TUI)", they provide a bridge across the digital divide for more students. Touchsmart founder and CEO, Jason Barkeloo, notes, "The TUI technology has the promise of reducing the cost of textbooks while increasing the amount of content and including multiple student learning styles and special needs. This technology enables a decentralized publishing model that will greatly benefit school districts as it allows them to publish their own books."
Alan Chaplin, CEO of Smartpaper Networks, commented, "Touchsmart Publishing has a unique vision for bringing enhanced learning tools to the educational market. We are pleased that they will be among the first adopters of our patented protected technology and excited by the reception they have received both from educators and from educational content providers."
About Smartpaper Networks Corporation
Smartpaper Networks Corporation has created a new electronic media platform that utilizes patented Smartpaper technology to make ordinary paper books and other printed publications come to life with the touch of a finger. Smartpaper's SmartCase, the entry product for the company, will provide a place to bind conventional printed publications to enable the pages to become touch-sensitive. When the page is touched, the coordinates of the touch are wirelessly transmitted (via infrared) to a host device such as a DVD player, or video game platform that enables a PC monitor or TV to display the hyperlinked electronic media.
For more information about Smartpaper Networks, please visit us at www.smartpaper.net
About TouchSmart Publishing, LLC:
TouchSmart Publishing is developmental-stage company with the exclusive license to develop and distribute touch-sensitive books to the K-12 math, science, and special education needs students. The Company's mission is to create and distribute exciting and easy-to-use interactive textbooks that connect to digital content by touching pages in a book. TouchSmart Publishing provides a bridge over the digital divide for more students, regardless of learning style, special needs or socioeconomic position, than are current connected. For more information, please visit the TouchSmart Publishing web site at http://www.touchsmart.net .
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