BORDEAUX, France, October 15 /PRNewswire/ --

- First Such Board on the Market, Stantum's SMK Series Will let Vendors 
Cost-Effectively Develop Their own Resistive Multi-Touch Applications

Stantum Technologies (http://www.stantum.com), a pioneer
developer of multi-touch sensing technology, today introduced a demo,
evaluation and development board based on its patented PMatrix(TM) resistive
multi-touch technology, which lets users simultaneously move an unlimited
number of fingers, nails or utensils (such as styli) on a screen.

The first such board on the market, the new SMK series enables
vendors and OEMs to evaluate the performance of Stantum's technology and
begin developing their own resistive multi-touch applications, thanks to a
user-friendly interface compatible with Windows, MAC OS and Linux.

"Stantum is demonstrating that - contrary to widespread
misbelief - multi-touch is possible with a cost-effective resistive
touch-panel platform," said Chris Crotty, director of small and medium
displays research at DisplaySearch, a leading provider of information,
consulting and conferences on the display supply chain and display-related
industries. "With this groundbreaking announcement, Stantum is combining the
best of both worlds by offering the features of projected capacitive
multi-touch with the lower cost and widespread availability of resistive
touch technology."

Added Guillaume Largillier, Stantum's co-founder and CEO: "Our
SMK series is the smart multi-touch development kit that the consumer
electronics and other industries have long anticipated. It gives
manufacturers developing their hardware and applications a great opportunity
to assess the huge advantages that multi-touch capability can offer,
especially when it uses resistive technology."

SMK boards come with either a 2.5- or 3.5-inch touch-panel
sensor; a multi-touch controller; Stantum's Lemurofon software, for
demonstrating simple multi-touch applications like games, picture zoom in and
out, and keyboard; and a USB port.

SMK multi-touch evaluation and development boards are now
available. Inquiries can be made via Stantum's web site at
http://www.stantum.com/spip.php?page=inquiry.

About Stantum Technologies

Stantum Technologies (formerly JazzMutant) has pioneered
multi-touch technologies since its founding in 2002 by Guillaume Largillier
and Pascal Joguet. The following year, it developed the world's first
multi-touch screen that could track an unlimited number of fingers at once
and in 2005 launched Lemur, the first multi-touch product available on the
market. Today, Stantum's technology portfolio and product offerings cover
every aspect of multi-touch interaction, including sensor design, multi-touch
controllers, intellectual property cores, software integration, and
application programming interfaces. Stantum is headquartered in Bordeaux,
France, with the U.S. accounting for about one-third of its worldwide sales.