GestureTek named “Cool Vendor” by Leading Analyst Firm

Vendors selected for the “Cool Vendor Report” are innovative, impactful and intriguing.

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, April 7, 2008 – GestureTek Inc. has been included in the "Cool Vendors" report by Gartner, Inc. (“Cool Vendors in Retail, 2008”, by Gale Daikoku, March 31, 2008).

GestureTek was listed in the Gartner Report, which pointed out that real-time interactive retail technologies are enabling customers to immerse themselves in a product or shopping experience, which could change the shopping and service environment to a socializing store experience. 

GestureTek’s interactive motion-sensing technologies can be used by retailers, advertisers and digital signage providers to create interactive experiences within the store environment, and to transform surfaces such as floors, walls, cash counters and retail windows into in-store advertising, promotion and entertainment mediums. 

Using advanced real-time computer vision control techniques, GestureTek’s patented gesture-recognition technology converts simple hand movements into direct mouse like control in virtually any environment through the use of video cameras and video projection technology. 

GestureTek’s motion-activated immersive technologies can also capture real-time customer video images onscreen, enabling customers to watch themselves as they interact with projected advertisements, branded multimedia content or games on a multi-media display. 

"GestureTek’s reputation in the retail and digital signage space has grown exponentially, thanks to new product innovations such as our Screen Xtreme immersive digital signage solution, awards such as the 2008 Digital Signage Interactive Technology Award and profile in news articles and industry research," said Vincent John Vincent, President and Co-Founder of GestureTek Inc.

GestureTek offers an array of products designed to let users control interactive content, access information, manipulate special effects or immerse themselves in an interactive 3D virtual world, simply by moving their hands or body. 

Selected GestureTek technologies for retail digital signage and advertising include:

GestPoint®: Gesture-based control system, providing a touch-free interface to any menu-based multi-media presentation system, with no mouse or other device required.

Illuminate™ Multi-Touch Tables & Displays:  Futuristic computing surfaces to navigate traditional multi-media or dynamic content with multi-touch interactivity.

ScreenXtreme™: Immersive digital signage and advertising technology that projects a user’s image onscreen and lets them manipulate multi-media content with hand and body movement.

GestureXtreme®: A thrilling immersive virtual gaming experience where users see themselves onscreen, interacting with virtual characters and objects. 

GestureFX®: An eye-catching visual display system that responds to body motion, projecting dynamic multi-media content onto floors, walls, tables, bars or counters. 

GestureTek’s product videos are available at http://www.gesturetek.com/newscenter/videos.php

About Gartner's Cool Vendors Selection Process:
Gartner's listing does not constitute an exhaustive list of vendors in any given technology area, but rather is designed to highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness of a particular purpose.  More information on the ‘Cool Vendors’ report is available at www.gartner.com.

Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn't do before; impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); intriguing, have caught Gartner's interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.

About GestureTek Inc.
GestureTek is the pioneer, patent-holder and world leader in gesture-recognition technologies and computer vision for information, presentation and entertainment systems.  The company’s revolutionary video gesture control software lets users control interactive content, access information, manipulate special effects or immerse themselves in an interactive 3D virtual world - simply by moving their hands or body. In the past 20 years, GestureTek has delivered approximately 4,000 interactive displays, kiosks, exhibits, games and other interactive solutions for museums, science centers, location-based entertainment facilities, retail stores, tourism and hospitality venues, real estate presentation centers, corporate boardrooms and showrooms, television networks and game developers.  The technology is also used by advertisers and marketers to make their digital signs and advertisements interactive and immersive.  Healthcare organizations specializing in rehabilitation, sensory stimulation, activation and recreation also use GestureTek’s technology for virtual therapy. GestureTek’s clients include leading organizations and Fortune 500 companies such as CNN, NASA, BMW, Ford, Oracle, Intel, IBM, Federal Express, Autodesk, Panasonic and more.  Software and patent licensees include Microsoft, Sony, Hasbro and NTT DoCoMo. GestureTek is headquartered in Silicon Valley, with additional offices in Toronto, Ottawa and Asia.  For more information visit www.gesturetek.com or call (416) 340-9290 or 800-315-1189. 

For more information contact:
Patti Jordan, Director Marketing & Communications, GestureTek
416-340-9290 x 274 patti.jordan@gesturetek.com

Liz Nida, Account Executive, SS PR
719-634-8055 lnida@sspr.com