Touch Screen Hire

The essential guide to touch screen rental

Touch-screen computers offer an incredible, intuitive and engaging way to interact with devices. Whether you’re working collaboratively, demo-ing a product at an event, collecting customer data or some other purpose, a touch screen offers a great way to go. If you don’t need the device long term, renting touch screen monitors gives you access to a wide variety of the latest technology and most responsive devices, without the expensive upfront outlay of the cost of ownership.

Here’s everything you need to know about touchscreen hire.

Touch screen hire: tips and considerations

A video wall solution interactive display is incredibly versatile and suits a whole range of business needs. Here’s everything you need to know about capacitive devices with touch screen hire.

Different kinds of touch screen

Thanks to the explosion in smartphones and tablets, we’re all used to a touch screen nowadays. That said, the options for an interactive touch screen go far beyond those more common devices:

• Large interactive displays: Perfect for exhibition stands, presentations, events and product demos, a large touch screen can offer a fantastic way to present technology or for processing information in an engaging way.

• Kiosks, totems and giant tablets: These kinds of touchscreens allow for self service, and are ideal to enable visitors to your exhibition stand or event kiosk to learn more about you and your products and technology, even inviting them to participate by touching the screen.

• Laptops: Touch screen laptops (which often feature detachable keyboard and stylus, or keyboard and mouse) are ideal for staff who are visiting conferences – they can type on the machines, yet also stay mobile and take customer details when in tablet mode.

• Desktop PCs: PCs with touch screen capabilities are a dream for designers, allowing them to interact with their creations in an intuitive manner.

How mobile do you need to be?

Will your employees be moving around an event or exhibition hall, perhaps taking down the names and details of new leads or demo-ing your products to an audience? Touch screen monitors with detachable keyboards could very well be the ideal kit.

Where will the touch screen be placed?

The location of your touch screen is important to consider too. Will it be attached to a wall? Do you have space at your exhibition stand or event space for a giant tablet on a floor stand, or touch screen panels? These kinds of considerations are important in order to decide which type of interactive display touch screen (large screen? tablet?) is right for you.

How do you want passers-by to interact with you?

Depending on whether you are exhibiting at a conference, in a shopping centre or some other environment, you will have different plans for interacting with passers-by. For example, if you are demo-ing a new piece of technology, like software, you might want a smaller screen you can show off to just one or two viewers. On the other hand, if your goal is to let members of the public and your guests scan through your company’s shopping catalogue, a big screen video wall in an event kiosk might be the way to go.

How many input methods do you need?

Standard touch screen devices are quality designed pretty much exclusively for experience with the fingers. However, there are other devices and multitouch screens which allow interaction with styluses, a mouse, av equipment, sensor, and keyboard too – so think about how many ways you want to interact with the screen.

Touch-screen devices give you a powerful way to interact with and display information. For help in choosing the right touch-screen rental for your purposes, contact our friendly teams today.