SMART Announces Interactive Flat Panel for Education

SMART Technologies, a provider of collaboration solutions, released the SMART Board 8055i interactive flat panel for education. The SMART Board 8055i combines a high-definition, shadow-free 55" (139.7cm) LCD display with advanced multitouch capability to provide an unparalleled viewing and writing experience. It includes the award-winning SMART Notebook collaborative learning software and access to the SMART Exchange website, where educators can connect, share and download nearly 60,000 digital resources. SMART's comprehensive line of interactive displays provides educators and administrators with the flexibility to meet the specific needs of individual classrooms and learning spaces to engage students and improve learning outcomes.

Combining collaborative capabilities with brilliant visuals, the SMART Board 8055i is also the first interactive display to include presence detection, automatically detecting user movements for quick startup automatic shut-down, increased power savings and longer life. The interactive flat panel uses DViT (Digital Vision Touch) technology to offer an enhanced multi touch experience, while supporting freestyle interaction, touch gestures and object awareness enabling a collaborative learning experience. With the 8055i, users can select, move or write over objects simultaneously for increased interaction. SMART plans to release SMART Board 8000 series interactive flat panels for education in larger sizes in the near future to offer educators a wider range of displays to support teaching, learning and collaboration. For more information on the SMART Board 8055i, visit smarttech.com/8000series.