Nanovision Mimo 7” Display
The week a lot of the tech. gadget sites announced the US availability of a series of mini monitors from Nanovision. The Mimo series have only been available in Korea up until now. These monitors would be perfect for a project I want to create for my home pub.
The project is a simple one. I want to have a touch screen monitor that I can use next to my tap for tracking beers. Without going into too much detail every time someone get a beer from the tap I would have a touch screen app that tracks each person when they click a predefined button I assign to them. Then over time I could report on the data to see all kinds of interesting stats. Like how many pints do I get out of the kegs I buy, what kegs I have bought in the past, who is drinking them and when they are drinking them, also how quick I go through kegs would be nice. I will write a custom app to do everything I need. With a touch screen the user would just touch their own predefined button and that is all. The app would track everything in a database and most likely be web enabled. Maybe even snap a photo of friends pulling the tap handle and show on the web with historical data and time stamp.
But back to the first step of getting my hands on a decent, small, touch screen monitor. My prayers have been answered with the Nanovision Mimo UM-740. It is a 7”, 800×400, USB Powered, touch screen monitor with horizontal and vertical display. Mac and Win are supported.
B I N G O.
There is a full review over at http://technabob.com/blog/2008/12/01/nanovision-mimo-7-inch-mini-monitor-hands-on-review/. Here are a few photos from their review. These can be ordered from http://thegadgeteers.com/ here in the US. The UM-740 is only $199.
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Blogging geek Dad that loves to do long runs, ride his bikes, partake in frosty beverages, listen to live music, watch movies, hike high into the mountains, and hang out with his family doing any of the above. Oh, and write code late into the wee hours of the morning. 
Hey Ed, maybe you should multi-purpose that to control your media center too?
I certainly could. I have everything running through FrontStage on a mac and it let’s me use the Apple remove. It is pretty convenient with the remote. I don’t even have a mouse of keyboard hooked up to it. I will Screen Share into it if I do need to use a mouse or keyboard.
Dude, that is a cool gadget! I’m a little disturbed by the inventory control / marketing database you intend to compile. You better have an “opt-in / opt-out” waiver or I ain’t touching that thing!
I need to see if those screens have Crestron capabilities I so I can use it with my pre-amp!
Maybe I will have to give aliases to the publicly viewable stats. Or maybe that is just the price you have to pay to drink for free at The House of Husar.