Premise Mimo 740 or 720 USB Touchscreen

[etc6849]

I'm curious if any Premise user has tried the device found at the following link? It appears it would look great attached to a wall, tabletop or mounted outside of an equipment rack.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/usb-gadgets/bfa3/

Better link with newer version for ~$199. The picture shows the stand is detachable and that the USB port is on the back... Looks like it'd be easy to wall mount and you'd only have to hide a single USB cable.
http://www.mimomonitors.com/products/imo-pivot-touch

USB powered, 7", ~$229, no external video card required and model 740 allows for control using your finger!

This device would be perfect if it used power over ethernet and was networked based. However, it looks like a great thing to try to wall mount and go usb.

Question: If I did try a device like this, how would windows handle multiple pointers? Would touching this screen take the pointer from my main screen or is there a way to manage multiple user input devices in windows? I'd be using this with windows 7 if I were to buy one...

 

[jimre]

I haven't tried one of these, but I was initially intrigued also. After doing some reading though, I ended up a bit skeptical about them. They may work for Premise, but won't work for everything. In particular given they don't support DirectX, it's not clear you could use Media Center, or ever play video on them. Also, since they are single-touch - not multi-touch - Windows 7 will treat them just like a mouse, no different from Vista. You won't get any of the cool swipe/gesture touch support unique to Win7.

One cable (USB) sounds great - but it seems they're right on the edge of having enough power with some USB ports (hence the 2nd USB connection for "underpowered" systems). I would guess that cable length could greatly impact this.

Aslo you should be clear these are for single-user PCs; they provide no additional support for multiple users. Having multiple USB touch monitors would be much like having multiple mice hooked to the same PC. They would compete with each other for control of the one & only pointer.