IcoN touch screen Video 1st November 2010

0:03 I'm from Great Bridge Tipton

Alright then, what's your name? Headphone. My name's Phil. And where are you from, Phil? I'm from Great Bridge Tipton. And what's your name? My name's Wayne and I'm from Walsall. Walsall. My folks used to come from Walsall. Shire Oaks Hill. Alright, so what we got here? What's this called? Tell us about this item. It's called the Icon Screen. Yep. It's basically a touch screen. At the moment it's just multi-touch, a couple of fingers. Yep. Basically anything your PC can do, you should do it. Got you. At the moment we've got VirtualDJ on. Right. Just going to put in my tune. Yep. So what we're looking at here guys is VirtualDJ, what you get on your PC, but a touch screen. Looks good.

What gave you the idea of doing something like this? Did you sort of lie in bed at night thinking, bloody hell I got a really good idea or did you go out there and think the industry needed something like this? What inspired you to create this? Well basically it was on YouTube and a chap done a DIY project for himself and I thought well he's using the lasers, I thought well I can do something. Here's the irony. You know, years ago you had a DJ with vinyl. So it was very tactile, wasn't it? Touchy-feely. And then of course everyone went CD and everyone said vinyl was dead. Vinyl isn't dead.

6:38 By the way, if you can hear any creaking, it's the floor

It probably never will die actually because you've got VirtualDJ with the likes of Serato, Traktor where you can manipulate the vinyl music off your PC. But what you've done in a sense is you've taken a program and you've put it on a screen You are still manipulating the music with your fingers, so the DJ is doing more by touching, feeling and whatnot and having a bit of a rub. And what I like about it as well, you see if we go this side, the other side, you can see it from the crowd's point of view as well, can't you? Yeah, so you can see the faders moving, you can actually see what the DJ's doing, what he's mixing.

Yeah, you see again, right, you may notice a load of cables on the floor, that's...

10:21 5 times less than that

Because this isn't, alright, can this be classed as the prototype? This is the prototype. Okay. All that you've just seen will be encased into the stand. Got ya. The stand itself, the glass will be glass, not pair specs. Right. The touchscreen will be under the glass, not over it. Yep. All them are just, you know, when you buy it. Yes. It will be all, you know, proper job. Do you know what, I'm getting goosebumps here. You know what I'm thinking, right? Look at the size of that and look at the size of this. You imagine having that on here, something like that. It would be, wouldn't it? Because you've got, you know, you would have your PC, you know, on the shelf under there. You could even still have a couple of turntables or whatever. But when you've got, you have that screen in front of you, then we are getting into all the realms of that film, The Minority Report, where the DJ is messing around and you can physically see the DJ touchy-feely, scratchy the music.

Excellent. Alright, give us another little bit of a demo then. Off you go. More of the same? Yeah, go for it. By the way, if you can hear any creaking, it's the floor. So that bit there. Yeah, that's what he's looking at. To people as well, this is the prototype and the screen needs calibrating so... You know, you may have noticed he was touching one of the icons there. I mean, that could be down to calibration or whatever. What we're going to get done as well is a custom scheme for the screen. So you've got your big chunky buttons, your crossfader and effects. We're using the original schemes with the VDJ at the moment, so they're a bit fiddly in the knob. Because you can't use a mouse. Right, gotcha. So yeah, we're getting a custom scheme built. You know, because I...

12:44 You've got all different colours and stuff

Um, could you just pause it a second? Alright, again I mean like, I'm sort of thinking outside the box. At the moment you've got, uh, this is Perspex. Was it Glass or Perspex? Perspex. Right, Perspex. Um, you know, eventually, you know, you could have a nice sort of, uh, I don't know, plastic rim all the way around it with a few LEDs pointing outwards and... Yeah, I was going to have the icon name in the... Got it, yeah. Blue LED round the side. Yeah. You see, what I'm looking at here I mean, it is relatively expensive, but you're sort of like very, very posh, yuppie type bar. I mean, you were mentioning about Harrods, because what's the deal with Harrods now? They've got like televisions that... How much are they? The television with the speakers is £25,000 and all it is, is the same as this, but a projector is projecting your TV onto a glass screen, that's all it is. Right. £15,000 for your speakers and all they have is glass. Right. And this...

5 times less than that. Yes. You're getting something that you can play movies on, play TV on, play your consoles on, play your music on, just anything your PC will do, this'll be better. Right, so of course, yeah, I don't know if you noticed there, but what he said, movies and games, so you can, so it's almost like a very big iPad, isn't it? Yeah. Fantastic. RPG games are the one with this, because you can zoom out on the battlefields and stuff. Got ya. And then also, you mentioned as well, Well, we've got about four sites up. You can put the links on after. Sure. But there's four sites. It shows you everything about it except for the price. Okay. There's a mobile number on there, emails. What we do is just personally deliver it to your house, sign a paper, sign your map in, that's it. When that's set up perfect like it is now, then we go away. Got you. All right, and you mentioned as well about only in the UK at the moment. Yeah, because unless you want to pay us expenses to go all over the world, we'll do it.

15:15 What we're going to do is this again is a first time

Right, okay. And there's only this one in the whole world, I believe? There's two in the world. This one's the only one in the UK. Yeah. The only other one around is in Chile. Right, so, yeah. So, right. There is other versions of it with alveolos. But it's an alveolo. It's just an alveolo where you can either just chuck it out of your flat screen TV or use a rear projector. Got you. That's the other version of it, but it has got restrictions. Got you. Okay. This is like a special program solely made for the touchscreen. There's a variety of things you can use. There's draw, you can draw anything you want in. You can pick your size of your brush, you know, spots or... My kids love this. You can save them off as well I think. You can change the size of your pad, change your colour. I wasn't sure you could change the colour of that.

There's different, you've got to keep your finger on when you select it, let the snarf light come on. Yeah, and then drag up, I'm with you, yeah. You've got all different colours and stuff. You can print them off. Got it, yeah. And you go in the corners to go back out. We've seen the tap. Oh yeah, that was fun. Some of them take a while to load. You just have to try and catch them all. This shows off the screen at its best. The faster you go... If you don't copy right, it'll stay on. See how that one stayed on? Yeah, I'm with you. Didn't do it quick enough. Ah, so, yeah, I got you. So, you know, it's nothing to do with the screen. Yeah. So I didn't catch that one either, looks like. Got you. Stayed on. Yeah. Best to use one-handed, sir. So they're staying on now. Jedi Master! Wipe on, wipe off! Oh, you've had it now, it can be covered.

17:26 Have this on a big 120-inch screen

Can you put your name in? Excellent. Done. Alright, let's go back to the VirtualDJ. Nice. Get out of that. Yeah. Okay. So again, I mean, you know, I'm looking at it from a point of view of the way it's set up. If you can get to a commercial, a bigger commercial stage, then it's not going to look like this, is it? No. No, nothing like it. It'll look a lot better, more refined. Yeah. It's basically an all-in-one. Yeah. Everything will be all-in-one. You won't have wires everywhere. The only wire you'll have is DJ fans. Got you, got you, got you. So much it can do, it's unbelievable. If this went to a club and then, you know, if you had like Ministry of Sound on this, have the booth coming out of the middle of the dance floor so you could see all around the booth, this was popping up with smoke around it.

Yeah, there is. It's like I said earlier on, you know, vinyl, it was touchy-feely. CD, you know, slightly less. Then of course, everyone was thinking, must get a PC and a mouse. This is still the PC and the mouse, but now the DJ is moving. You're moving around. You're not just sort of click, click, click, are you? All right, you've got the controller as well. Are we going to try the controller later on? Okay, so what we're going to do is this again is a first time. We're going to be chucking in the Newmark Total Control. We're going to be chucking that guy, well not literally, and using that in conjunction with this here. So we'll just pause this camera for a second and let's get something else set up. Yeah, we've got t-shirts. Check it out.

20:27 One at that corner and one down that corner

I like that. I'm just going to put the close-up on it. You can get a t-shirt there with lickable clink for the ladies, or any blokes with rather large breasts. If anyone's interested in any of these, go and check out djtutor.com forward slash merch, or in Welsh, merch. It's short for lady, merched. We can see what we're doing. Right, we're just going to set up a few things and we'll be back in, well, as soon as this finishes, straight back on. Yeah, that's advertising somebody else's product, isn't it? What's this now? VirtualDJ. We're showing this off but we are getting nothing out of it. Yeah, I know what you mean. Well, I'm recording that as well, but I mean, what you are getting out of it is you're showing people what this can do with the VirtualDJ programme.

22:33 No, I'll start again

You know, it's taking a DJ who would normally use something like this on a PC to having it on a screen like that so the people can actually see what the DJ is doing. So, it's like a... No, I don't think I said earlier, but a normal stereotypical DJ using a laptop, you know, their screen is facing them, you know? I just thought of an idea we could do in a club. Have this on a big 120-inch screen. Yes. And have the public on the dance floor picking the tunes, and you matching them on the decks. Yeah. All your tunes are picked for you by the audience. Wow. Yeah, exactly. So there, you have got 100% audience participation, haven't you? As long as I don't keep playing the same tune. Do you know what I was just thinking as well? How about you could maybe even have this... Is there any way of getting this on the web? So people could somehow...

Work with it on the web at the same time. What do you mean? Well, I suppose, again, I'm sort of thinking aloud. You could get on, say, to the likes of BlogTV or Ustream. Yeah, I'm on there. Right, so you're on there. The camera's on you. Then, no, there's no way of getting the program down to them. But what they could do is they could choose the tunes, couldn't they? Yeah, that would be... You know. I've got a following of about seven at the moment when he just started it. Right, okay. Classic. If I just do this now we've got cats and dogs or something on so we're not going to really watch or show you much of that just in case people start complaining but there it is there's a film on there so you can watch films as well excellent right also as well as you can see that would be your normal pc screen so you can use this just as a normal pc can't you

Yeah, let's move stuff around. It is, it's Minority Report, isn't it? Yeah. Classic. The main part of the DJ one, I ain't a DJ tutor or nothing, but all you've got to do is get that cue set up, click over here for your second one. You do that without the sound. Get that cued up. That's how you want to start from there. Move that all out. The only trouble is we can't hear the cues because they sit at the same place. Yeah, sure. So there we've got... Blue highlighted for the one channel and red for the other. Sometimes I've noticed as well that it doesn't do what your finger wants it to do. Possibly that is down to your finger being a bit dry. You mustn't shout! Got you, yes. Got you. Yeah, because what I don't think I might have... No, I don't think I did video that, but what happened earlier on is to calibrate it, you have a circle up here and you press the centre and you get like this red circle that seems to grow and grow.

25:26 What we're dealing with here as well is connection speed

One at that corner and one down that corner. So what that's doing is the program is showing where the screen is or where the skin is in relation to the screen and then in turn in relation to all of the icons, for example. Correct? Yeah? Got you. Do you want to talk about price, what they're going to go for? The complete setup is about 5,000. But a lot of people aren't going to want the complete setup because they've got stuff to learn. You've got a PC over there but Mac or anything is quite adequate. But processor, what sort of speed would the processor have to be? Quad core? At least it's a 2 gig. You can have a 2 gig Pentium too. Got you. Now you mentioned earlier on, because again... For the people who do or don't know me, I do punk style videos so there's a bit of advertising here but also this is real life so there will be lots of editing here but it'll just be me starting and stopping. It won't be like, hi! Nothing like that. So there you go, you've had a rough price but I believe you're interested or you would be looking... No, I'll start again. You are sort of looking for or you may be interested

All club owners. Well, I don't know, I wouldn't say... Yeah. Club owners, maybe not. I think you're more looking at industry people who have got their foot in the door in relation to the DJ industry. But having said that, alright we've got a good DJ tool here but it doesn't necessarily have to be someone in the music industry. Because I mentioned to you earlier on for example there could be ways of using this say for medical purposes. You know, all of a sudden, there you go, flat screen, you can start having a jiggle around with people's bones and stuff, can't you? If he wanted to, he could have it flat like that, and have the whole classroom behind him. Have this as a flat screen, it could be in another room, operating table. Yes. And you could have a projection going onto the operating table, and the block would be saying here, I'm pointing to it with a little red finger. Yes. And it'll be showing him exactly what he wants to do. Yeah, got you. Yeah, fantastic.

27:33 This is where I used to live many moons ago, on Borth Beach

Three, two, ah, we're on. Right, here we are again ladies and gentlemen with the icon touchscreen. And what we've done now, we've got the likes of Google Earth on here. Now earlier on you saw the VirtualDJ but, right, what I'm looking at here is something suitable say for schools, colleges, that kind of thing. Again, I'm not just about DJing. My life is very surreal and random so randomness is the key. In other words, be random and you could enjoy yourself. Send the bishop to the actress. Right, so we're on Google Earth and let's have a look. There we are. This is Africa, Spain and the United Kingdom. There you go. So let's just take this down here a little bit. And there is Wales. In fact, I'll tell you what we'd do. We'll go to Aberystwyth, which is, you know, where are my horns?

Now, what we're dealing with here as well is connection speed. So, if it is slow, it's just down to actual connection speed. This is cool. This is absolutely... My God! Do you know? I've lived here for a long time and I've lived in Aberystwyth. I have never, ever, ever seen these boxes in the streets. Never. Never seen that. And look, there's like a flat rocket there. Oh my God! There's people walking! Oh my God, they're big. Crikey. Oh, what have we done? Oh yes. That's it, I pressed one of those things. Alright, the paradeway, subway. So I wonder if we touch that. Oh there you go, there's, there's, yeah, like it. Right, let's get rid of that. Let's just go a little bit closer. Don't want to do that. Of course what we can do here is just zoom in there as well, can't we? Oh, it's not collaborated. Calibrated. Calibrated. Oh, love it.

Alright, so there's Aberystwyth, there's the pier and there is an inn on the pier. It's in the pier. And what I'm going to do now, we're going to fly along the coast. Go on, fly. No, that way. That's it. Go along the coast. Oh shit, we're going out to sea there. Don't want to do that. That, I believe, is Clarrick. Clarrick Bay. There you go. Clarrick Bay Holiday Village. When I was a kid, I used to walk along the cliff. My mum was telling me apparently when I was 11, I phoned my mum and I said, I'm in Aberystwyth. She said, how did you get there? I said, I walked on the cliff and I walk from Borth which is somewhere along here. Crikey, the farmer was pissed there. See the lines in the field. He must have been pissed. He can go in a bloody straight line. Right, here we go. Right, we're going to Borth now. I believe there's the monument there and here is Borth.

This is where I used to live many moons ago, on Borth Beach. And there's the high street. There is a place called It's A Gift. That's where I did a wedding. I did the wedding right there in a marquee. Biggest marquee that I've ever known. And let's have a look on the beach. Shit, nice bit of totty there actually. No. Alright, so there you go, Google Map. It's a shame actually this wasn't live because if it was, you know what we could do? Where do you want me to go? I could actually look at your house. What we can do, oh no, like that. So you can see what I'm doing now, I'm actually using the touchscreen similar to let's say your iPad or your iPhone as well. And again what we could do, just zoom out here. Hold on, no hold on, get it calibrated isn't it? No I've got to get that, yeah because it's not calibrated correctly for this is it? So, no I like it, I like this a lot gents. Let's stop there. Right what's there?

If that's Newtown or something like that. Nantwich, alright, we've been quite far there, haven't we? Nantwich. Is that near you? Yeah, it's high forward. Is it? Crikey. Crew. Sandbatch. There you go. Excellent. So, Google Maps I think that'll do for that. Let's press it again. Alright, so here we go. Right, anything there? Any last thoughts, last comments, anything like that, gentlemen? Once again, explain how people can get hold of you. How they can get involved and maybe as well how you would like them to be involved. Well, I've got a blog TV thing that I'm doing. When I get set up in the other room, I'll have this on all the time. And every time I'm on, which is every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, you'll be able to request your tunes and I'll play them live.

Got you. And what is your blog TV? I don't know if you already said that. What's your blog TV name? Ian Moon. So it's blogtv.com forward slash user forward slash Ian Moon. With an E on the end. Right, could you just spell that out? O-I-N-M-O-O-N-E. Right, brilliant. OK. It looks good. Alright, I'll tell you what, we'll finish off with one of the best sayings in the world which is... Practice and enjoy. Thank you. And he hasn't got a clue. No, nice one.

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