NPLA Inplay Technologies (MM)

InPlay Technologies (NASDAQ: NPLA) today unveiled an industry-leading, integrated active pen and multi-finger capacitive touch input technology platform. The new platform allows for the development of an array of innovative and enhanced features in next-generation electronic human interface devices and solutions. The new MPCD-970 series integrates active digital pen and multi-finger capacitive touch inputs, allowing the user to choose the most natural and effective input means. The active digital pen optimizes handwriting recognition and allows for added digital features. The multi-finger capacitive touch screen offers a quick, proximity sensing, intuitive interface for cursor selection and navigation. �This solution builds on our dual-mode resistive touch solution. Partnering with a leading supplier of capacitive touch technology, we have developed a product that integrates a multi-finger capacitive touch solution with our digital pen product. We have also worked closely with our tier-one manufacturing partner to support cost efficiencies and high quality manufacturing,� said Ramesh Ramchandani, President and COO, InPlay. Originally developed for the Smartphone market, the system is scalable to meet a wide range of product specifications including tablet PCs, UMPCs and e-books, as well as point-of-sale and kiosk applications. �The Smartphone has quickly become a must-have device for quick communication and connectivity. OEMs are faced with the challenge of providing even greater feature-rich products to meet the demands of this market,� commented Ramchandani. �With the introduction of integrated digital pen input and multi-finger capacitive touch capability, we can help OEMs customize products to provide an enhanced user experience for a wide range of mobile devices.� According to IDC, the Smartphone market is expected to grow from 100 million units in 2007 to over 180 million units in 2009. InPlay�s active RF, digital pen technology is the only one of its kind on the market, offering a significant advancement over analog systems used with most pen input devices. The active digital pen optimizes handwriting recognition and allows for added digital features. 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 digitizer behind the LCD screen employs bi-directional electromagnetic technology to communicate with the pen as it moves across the surface, reporting the tip status, sensitivity, pen position, and other details. The MPD-9xx digitizer board is the thinnest on the market, reducing the impact on overall product thickness. InPlay's FinePoint digital computing system 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 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.