NPLA Inplay Technologies (MM)

InPlay Technologies (NASDAQ: NPLA), a developer of innovative human interface devices for electronic products, today announced that it has expanded its core active digital pen technology platform, enabling innovative dual-mode integrated pen and resistive touch input solutions. The FinePoint MPD-950 system couples the advantages of InPlay�s active RF digital pen technology with a resistive touch screen interface, offering the user a choice of input. The active digital pen optimizes handwriting recognition and allows for added digital features, while the touch screen offers a quick intuitive interface for cursor selection and navigation. �This is the first implementation of our dual-mode active pen and resistive touch solutions,� said Ramesh Ramchandani, InPlay president and COO. �We can provide the customers with a complete solution or the flexibility to implement the resistive touch panel and supplier of their choice. The touch panel is then integrated with our single- or dual-board digitizer, controller and firmware to provide a dual-input resistive touch and active digital pen subsystem.� As with all of its customizable solutions, InPlay offers OEMs the choice of battery-powered or battery-free, cordless or corded pen products, with a full range of choices for user-defined digital features. The MPD-9xx digitizer board is the thinnest on the market, reducing the impact on overall product thickness. The digitizer behind the LCD screen employs electromagnetic technology to communicate with the pen as it moves across the surface, reporting the tip status, sensitivity, pen position, and other details. InPlay's FinePoint digital pen computing system (the only of its kind in the industry) is designed and engineered to optimize power consumption while maintaining high accuracy, high resolution and low noise performance, all while enabling advanced functions such as hover capability and security coding in a compact, competitively-priced device. This pen-and-digitizer system allows the pen itself to interact with the computer and gives the OEM the capability to incorporate a wide variety of functions and pen outputs, via a side-mounted button. About InPlay Technologies InPlay Technologies is a developer of innovative human interface devices for electronic products. The company's FinePoint division offers the only digital-based pen-input solution for the rapidly growing mobile computing market. With InPlay�s digital technology, OEMs have an almost limitless roadmap for development of new features and functions for their product designs. The Company�s Duraswitch� brand of electronic switch technologies couples the friendly tactile feedback of mechanical pushbuttons and rotary dials with the highly reliable, thin profile of membrane switches enabling OEMs to create ergonomic, space saving input panels for a wide range of applications. Visit www.inplaytechnologies.com for more information.