Panasonic Multi Touch Air Hockey Table

Are you into air hockey? If so, then you are aware that a typical air hockey table consists of a large smooth playing surface, a surrounding rail to prevent the puck and mallets from leaving the table, and slots in the rail at either end of the table that serve as goals. On the ends of the table, behind and below the goals, there is usually a puck return.

What you are looking at above is an air-hockey table. But wait, it’s not just an ordinary air hockey table; it’s a multi-touch air hockey table. A start-up arcade would definitely need this as a center of action. First previewed at the Integrated Systems Europe 2009 show in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago, this Multi-Touch Air Hockey is a project between Panasonic and U-Touch. The hardware tweak came from U-Touch and the software was built by London-based Uicentric.



Panasonic finds it hard to sell off its $70,000 television because of the tough economy. So they came up with this idea – to turn its 103-inch television into a multi-touch touchscreen air hockey table. Although it still has some kinks, it would still look cool to air hockey aficionados. Not on sale yet, the Panasonic Multi-Touch Air Hockey is only for conferences and corporate events at the moment.