Luidia's eBeam Technology Used For New HP Pocket Whiteboard and HP Digital Sketch Wireless Tablet

New interactive HP products transform a flat surface into an interactive workspace, enhance delivery of information, capture and share input, and elevate student engagement and group collaboration

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Luidia, Inc.

Feb 09, 2011, 01:14 ET

AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Luidia, Inc., the global award-winning developer of eBeam® portable digital capture and display solutions, today announced that its eBeam technology is being used in the new HP Pocket Whiteboard and HP Digital Sketch Wireless Tablet.

Both products will be part of the HP Digital Learning Suite and will make their public debut at the Texas Computer Education Association (TCEA) Conference the week of February 7, 2011 in Austin, Texas.

The HP Pocket Whiteboard, when used with a projector, allows a user to transform a flat surface into an interactive workspace. Using the included interactive stylus pen, users can present, annotate and interact with the projected content, record meetings and lectures, and even share their work over the Internet.

The HP Digital Sketch allows a user, from a distance, to interact within the projected workspace – creating a collaborative working session. Included with both products will be HP Interact for Education and HP Workspace for Business.

"Luidia's eBeam solutions uniquely simplify what is a very complex problem and provide portable, scalable, easy-to-use solutions that work with existing classrooms, conference rooms or mobile communication infrastructure, making interactive collaboration easily available to students, small teams, and large enterprises," said Roy Erez, Luidia Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development. "Classrooms using the HP Digital Learning Suite will experience a compelling interactive solution with which users can easily capture and share ideas, lessons and information with any person on any device."

"The HP Digital Learning Suite helps turn students' dreams into 'real life' with student-centric teaching and learning solutions that impact what and how they learn," said Kim Chrissan, director of Americas Education Solutions, Personal Systems Group, HP. "Interactive whiteboard and collaboration technology such as eBeam has enormous potential to improve the quality and effectiveness of communication within and outside the classroom."

The eBeam Ecosystem

For over eight years Luidia has produced an ecosystem of interactive digital capture and collaboration products. Luidia's existing line of products includes the eBeam Edge, the standard for portable surface capture. Its low cost and simple installation make it a high demand technology in both schools and emerging markets throughout the world. Luidia provides complete hardware and software solutions that enable interactivity in a wide range of products-- from small and portable-sized devices, to projectors and mounts, to flat panel displays, to large format surfaces.

About Luidia

Luidia creates interactive technology for capturing and sharing ideas. The company's portable eBeam products transform flat surfaces and whiteboards into interactive and collaborative workspaces. Luidia's eBeam Interactive whiteboard systems have been installed in over half a million classrooms and conference rooms worldwide. Luidia and its manufacturing partners' products are in use on five continents and dozens of countries. The company is headquartered in the Silicon Valley. For more information, please visit: www.luidia.com or www.e-beam.com.

For More Information, Videos and Applications

Interactive whiteboard reference materials including lessons and activities, primary source documents, maps, images, and simulations are available here (http://www.e-beam.com/education/web-resources.html)
A video on interactive whiteboards and eBeam technology can be viewed here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRrEAtbTiSc)
A Video on eBeam Edge technology and use cases can be viewed here (http://www.e-beam.com/lp/video-education.html)

SOURCE Luidia, Inc.