There are a lot of new things happening in the
world of document cameras and visualization tools, as evidenced in the first
two major conferences of 2014 (FETC and TCEA).
Here are some quick news bytes:
AverInformation
AverInfo featured a redesign of the user interface
of the software that controls their document cameras, pictured below.
It's a good
move, based on my previous post, entitled “Improve This!”
ExoLabs
This is the first time I have seen ExoLabs at one
of these conferences, and they made a splash with their new microscope camera
and their close up camera with a mounting stand, pictured below.
GradeCam
GradeCam made a first time entry with an
assessment scoring all-in-one solution, pictured below. Not a document camera,
they claim, but it looks like one to me. Perhaps we can call it a single-purpose document
camera?
Fujitsu
Fujitsu also entered these exhibit halls for the
first time with a dedicated scanning solution, designed to bring high quality
to image capture, while replacing the long-asleep flatbed scanner. This generation of hardware is called their "scansnap" line. But I am bit
worried--what they were modeling might indeed be illegal.
Lumens
Standard Lumens visualizers were on display in a
typically attractive booth. “Pass-through HDMI inputs” were the newest feature they
were promoting. Lumens would do better to return to teacher-centered messaging.
See my blog post entitled “Visualize
Better Messaging.”
In the next two posts, we will highlight some of
the ground-breaking trends being offered two of the document camera companies exhibiting
at TCEA and FETC.
