Turn existing Big Screen TV's into Interactive TV - yep, we can do that!!

An interesting question came up during one of my weekly meetings with one of our member schools. (shout-out to Yonah and Michael at Harkham Hillel) Is there any EASY way for a stock, consumer rated, flat panel TV to be turned into touch screen TV?

Now, many of you have most likely heard about some sort of device that goes over a consumer flat panel TV, or a film that can be place on the screen, but these items end up costing significant dollars.  The cost of an interactive flat panel TV, while costing less than last year, is still prohibitive for most.

In comes the "eBeam Edge" device.  I remember playing with an eBeam product for whiteboards a few year ago at an ISTE conference.  I worked great and guess what?  eBeam also works on Flat Panel TV's as well. 

All in all - a great solution.... Here is a video from YouTube showing the device working on a regular LCD Big Screen TV.

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Do you know of any ways to turn a consumer TV into an Interactive Device?  Tell us about it in the comments section of the Blog.

Regards....

Yossie

Yossie Frankel
Director - Consortium for Information and Academic Technologies
Member Schools:
Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy - yfrankel@hillelhebrew.org
Oakland Hebrew Day School - y.frankel@ohds.org
Shalhevet High School - y.frankel@shalhevet.org
Yeshivat Yavneh - www.yha.org
Arete Preparatory Academy - yfrankel@areteprep.org

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