Touchtop Technologies, Inc.

THE ENTERPRISEwTHE PRODUCT

"The biggest cause for the shortage (in large screen notebook computers)….is soaring demand"

 Evan Ramstad, Wall Street Journal, November 20, 1996

THE COMPANY

TouchTop Technologies, Inc. develops leading-edge display technologies for license to the world's top display manufacturers.  Although not incorporated until 1996, the concept for TouchTop Technologies, Inc. was conceived in January of 1990.  Dr. Di Patel had just recently completed his work as chief architect of the revolutionary graphical user interface for MacroSoft's Windows operating system.  He and Mr. Ira Weinstein, who was in charge of establishing Hundeye's Thin Film Transistor LCD lab in Korea, were discussing the future of user interfaces at the Information Display Symposium in San Diego.  Within moments it became clear that the two men shared a common vision for the next generation of interaction between user and computer.  By the end of the symposium their discussion had evolved into a thorough functional specification for the next generation interface:  a thin, flexible, portable display device that mimics a desktop in scale and user interaction.  A diagram is show below:

With the proposed device, users could simply touch "stacks" of full size documents on the screen and be able to view multiple documents simultaneously.  Essentially the user would interact in an environment where the "screen" provides display output and accepts input in the same manner physical objects on a desk are manipulated and at the same physical scale.

In the course of developing the technical specifications for such a device, it became clear that the existing display technology could not meet all of the founder's functional requirements.  This led Mr. Weinstein to consult his friend and associate Dr. Vladimir Chenenko. Dr. Chenenko literally wrote the book, actually several books, on flat screen display systems in the Former Soviet Union.  For most of his adult life, Dr. Chenenko has pursued development of what he calls a Light Emitting Dry Crystal Display® .  Although Dr. Chenenko's patented system was very promising, in its raw state it lacked the responsiveness and manufacturability to make it a viable alternative to competing display technologies.  Together, Mr. Weinstein, Mr. Patel and Dr. Chenenko transformed the Light Emitting Dry Crystal Display into the next generation of display technology.