The world may be scary, but you can now get very large flat-screen TVs for hundreds, not thousands, of bucks. Perhaps you’ll do just that over Christmas or in the January sales.
Norwegian company Sana Ludo has a Kickstarter that might just turn your old TV into a touch-enabled gaming table or wall-mounted display. The project is Frame-Touch, and it’s halfway to reaching its funding goal.
There’s a protective antiglare glass over the top, customisable inputs so you can swap cable types around and technology that adds 20 point touch. That last metric is a count of how many people can be using your transformed TV as a touch screen at once.
Frame-Touch is also described as something that can be hung without screws. I think that’s technically true. You hang it off something else on the wall and that means you can flip it from portrait to landscape. However, you may have to screw in that initial mount – at least, I wouldn’t try and hang a flatscreen TV plus touch technology framed in real wood on anything weaker.
The inventor, Thomas Fiske is a Dungeon Master as as well as a programmer. That’s why the crowdfunding pitch leans into the use of the Frame-Touch as a virtual battlemap display.
We believe in the transformative potential of Frame-Touch to elevate how people use their TVs – whether for gaming, creativity, productivity, or family time – and we are committed to making this vision a reality. Since we first shared the idea, we’ve been amazed by the enthusiastic feedback and excitement from around the world. Inspired by this response, we’ve been hard at work to further develop Frame-Touch, and find designers, engineers and manufactoring experts who can help us deliver a version suitable for mass production – versatile and long-lasting.
The Frame-Touch has a very generous “Early Bird” tier for the 32″ version which unlocks for backers at €349. There’s nothing before that.
The 43″ frame is €419, about £350, in the tier price list and as with the smaller frame comes in a choice of wood.
Larger still, the 50″ early bird includes (as they all do) the required tech and asks backers to find €479.
If the project is successfully funded and all goes without a hitch on the production then the estimated delivery is May 2025. The Kickstarter for the shiny (but antiglare) tech runs until 10th January.
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