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The Sheraton Hotel Bratislava wanted an outstandingly fresh experience for their customers and was looking for that special atmosphere at the bar. They wanted to wow customers when they entered for the first time. It was important to the client to cover the entire 15 metres of serving space at the bar and create an ambience of light and colour, all as part of an interactive experience.

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Come and visit Mindstorm at CeBIT, the world’s leading tradeshow for digital industries, between the 2nd and 6th of March 2010 in Hannover, Germany. This year, Mindstorm is exhibiting with Microsoft on their partner stand together with ICT market leaders Fujitsu, Deutsche Telecom and SAP, showcasing the latest digital products and services. We promise to deliver an engaging and inspiring experience of interactive surface solutions.

Mindstorm, the company that brings surfaces and spaces to life, is proud to announce its open-source Software Development Kit for multi-touch technologies, Mindstorm Breeze for WPF 3.5.

Mindstorm took part in this year’s X Factor marking the first time multi touch interactive surfaces have taken prime place on a widely popular TV show. The X Factor found Mindstorm due to our involvement with ITV in the past in shows such as The Krypton Factor.

This year onedotzero is working with multi-touch companies so touch and Mindstorm to create a special multi-touch screen installation for the 2009 festival. This will hold all the festival's programme details and will be searchable, allowing visitors to find out more about the festival. Located in BFI Southbank's foyer, it offers a new, interactive way to explore the festival programme. Click here to see a video of the table in action at the festival.

Mindstorm and Panasonic will be working together in a range of commercial areas. Details of the partnership will be announced in a forthcoming press release.

Mindstorm teamed up with Cognito, a full service communications agency working exclusively for finance and finance technology companies, to host the the first ever event in the UK dedicated to interactive multi-touch surfaces. The event, entitled "The Future of Financial Services Communication", focused on how interactive surfaces can contribute to the changing of the landscape of financial communications.

Mindstorm worked with Google and YouTube to present a multi-touch version of Google Earth on the YouTube stand at Davos.

It was an unique opportunity to showcase interactive surface technology to senior executives and world leaders. Amongst the people who had a go were Google co-founder Larry Page, Sir Martin Sorrel from WPP, Kofi Annan and many others.

If you go to either Meribel or Verbier, the exclusive ski resorts in France and Switzerland, you will have an opportunity to experience a new type of brand activation and consumer engagement. As a part of an overall campaign Nissan decided to place iBars® permanently within bars in the two resorts.

To our delight, the Mindstorm iBar® and iWall™ installation at high-end nightclub '24 London' in Kingly Street has been featured in the book 'Extreme Bars' by Tectum Publishers. The book features 43 extraordinary  bars, and you will find an article about 24 London as well as images from the installation - both in the article and scattered throughout the book.

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Architectural Record, a magazine that has been writing about design ideas and trends for more than 110 years, has included a review of Soho London venue 24 London in their November 2008 issue.

24 London is a high-end nightclub in one of London's most fashionable areas, and it has been fitted with both the Mindstorm iWall™, which projects branded messages and ambient features on to every wall in the club, and four metres of iBar®, which acts as a socialising point in the centre of the venue.

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The Mindstorm iWall™ is featured on this year's season of Big Brother ('Gran Hermano') in Spain. The iWall™ is located in the bedroom of the house, and reacts to people walking past, playing with and touching the wall.

The iWall™ has been installed in the house with a variety of effects, including a bespoke 'Gran Hermano' effect.

See the video of the iWall™ on Spanish Big Brother