your order from your phone to see the name of the drink you enjoyed and would like at home. There are many situations in which increased intelligence and interoperability of devices and services would make life easier.

The Vision We founded LamasaTech with a vision to change the way people use and think about computers. Computers are no longer large machines which sit on a desk and never move. More and more consumer devices have capabilities built into them which we would traditionally associate with desktop computers. At the moment though, they all operate largely independently from one another. We have a vision to make them all work together intelligently and with natural, intuitive interfaces appropriate to whatever situation you happen to be in.

The Path It’s a huge undertaking, however in collaboration with Codeworks and with the support of Sunderland Software City, we have broken it down into many smaller projects with the focus on a high degree of interconnectivity and with the idea that in future they will all operate together seamlessly. We are developing a standard messaging protocol and interfaces to ensure that each small project can easily be integrated with other projects where appropriate. The result of this is a working prototype of the restaurant scenario described above, where the menu can be viewed on a number of different devices and preference data is saved into the cloud. We are also working on a conferencing room solution, with interactive whiteboard displays which integrate seamlessly with multi-touch table surfaces, all of the data from which can be saved and taken away by the participants of the meeting.

We use the same technology to rapidly create other large multi-user interactive displays for use in education and at exhibitions.