Porta Touch - new user built touch midi control surface

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHpZ5tM7sN8

*taken from the NUI group page*

Community member portatouch, a sound-designer/engineer and composer from little Switzerland brings us a very well designed portable MT solution. As the video above showcases the construction is easily broken down and reassembled and uses a Apple Mac Mini providing a full package device.

Here are some device details:

Specs:
- Benq 2410 HD LCD Panel (1920 x 1080 Pixel)
- 8mm Endlighten XL Plexiglas (Touch Panel Frame)
- IR-Led-Ribbon 850nm with 160 Led’s
- 8 mm Endlighten XL Plexiglas (for the Backlight)
- 2 Original Backlight Tubes from the Benq 2410 HD Panel
- Unibrain Fire-i Firewire Camera, 30fps, 640x480 Pixel, 81° Wide Lens
- 850nm Acrylic IR-Longpass-Filter
- MacMini Core 2Duo 2.66 Ghz running OS X Leopard, CCV 1.2, ReacTIVision 1.4 and Quarz Composer
- Fiducial (with ReacTIVision) and finger recognition (with CCV 1.2 / 5 ms response latency)
- Mounted Dimensions: 75cm x 45cm x 35cm (W x D x H)
- Mounting Time: 3 min. with 12 Screws, few cables
- Boxed Dimensions in Flightcase: 75cm x 45cm x 15cm (W x D x H)

Layers:
- 8mm Endlighten Touch Panel Frame with IR-Led-Ribbon
- Benq 24” LCD Panel
- 8mm Endlighten with Backlight Tubes on the long sides
- 3mm Plexiglas on Aluminium Frame as Mounting Surface
- Fire-i Camera mounted 30cm under Touch Panel


http://nuigroup.com/log/porta_touch/


it uses a similar principal to the old "diy microsoft surface" except this uses an lcd rather than a projector