Engineers at Eyebeam, a New York arts and technology center, are drastically reducing the cost of ownership for multitouch tables by taking them open-source. Schematics for the Cubit, a multitouch ...

The iPhone popularized the idea of multitouch displays, and just last month, Microsoft brought the concept to a larger screen by releasing Surface, a multitouch table with a hefty $10,000 price tag.

Point-of-Sale (POS) software is typically expensive, complex and often requires businesses to pay annual licence fees for unrelated underlying database or operating system software. And much to the ...