David Tucker, left, and Joe Johnston record their acceptance speech for the People’s Voice Webby.ABOUT UNIVERSAL MIND
Universal Mind is a digital solutions agency that specializes in creating apps that allow for a multiscreen customer experience. The company is headquartered in Colorado and has locations in Europe, San Francisco and Michigan.Source: universalmind.com
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A Cleveland, Tenn., software developer is in New York City today to claim one of the most respected awards in the Internet and web-development world – a Webby Award.
As the director of research and development at Universal Mind, a national digital consulting firm, developer David Tucker spearheaded the company’s effort to create the iPad Table. It’s a table top made of 15 iPads — and they function as one device.
“They’re talking to one another over a normal WiFi network,” Tucker said in a telephone interview Monday. “But the difference is that they know about one another. They know not only that the other devices are there, but they know where those devices are positioned in space. So we can create a single surface out of separate devices, and you can pass information from one to another.”