Ideum is a company based in Corrales, NM that produces multitouch tables and interactive web and media applications. The company was founded in 1999 by Jim Spadaccini, who created interactive exhibits for San Francisco's Exploratorium

Exploratorium

The Exploratorium is a museum in San Francisco with over 475 participatory exhibits, all of them made onsite, that mix science and art. It also aims to promote museums as informal education centers....

 before becoming creative director at Ideum. With strong ties to the field, many of the company's products and services are targeted at museums and other public spaces. The company's primary hardware product is the MT-50 multitouch table

MT-50 Multitouch Table

The MT-50 is an interactive multitouch table developed by Ideum. The table has a 50" display with a 1280 x 720 resolution that uses IR flood technology to register multi-user, multitouch gestures, and uses the NUI Snowflake software package to handle optical processing. It supports over 50 discrete...

, which garnered recognition for its high resolution and large surface. Ideum is partnered with the Swedish company Natural User Interface, which provides the table's underlying software framework. The tables also use Ideum's proprietary software, GestureWorks, which allows the development of multitouch user interfaces in Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash

Adobe Flash is a multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to web pages. Flash is frequently used for advertisements, games and flash animations for broadcast...

. Ideum has designed exhibits for Adobe Systems Inc., NASA

NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...

, the Adventure Science Center in Nashville, California Science Center

California Science Center

The California Science Center is a state agency and museum located in Exposition Park, Los Angeles. Billed as the West Coast's largest hands-on science center, the California ScienCenter is a public-private partnership between the State and the California Science Center Foundation...

, and the National Park Service

National Park Service

The National Park Service is the U.S. federal agency that manages all national parks, many national monuments, and other conservation and historical properties with various title designations...

, among others.