How about skip the pricey touchscreen and do a Johnny Lee: 
http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/

I.e. use a Wii or Kinect controller to enable gesture functions on a regular 
screen.  It's on the to-do list I can never get to.

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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew 
Gordon
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:46 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Digital Collections Browser Kiosk Software Options

Hi All,

We are looking into options for setting up a physical kiosk (touchscreen 
monitor and computer) in our lobby to allow visitors to our building to browse 
digital versions of some items from our collection. I see that Turning The 
Pages (e.g. http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/) provides a nice solution for 
this but I just wanted to see if anyone else had worked with something similar 
and might know of any other options (open source?) so that we can do a little 
comparing and contrasting. For some reason I am thinking there was a discussion 
a little while back about 3D digital collections browsing but can't seem to 
locate it and don't know it if was like the above scenario.

I think since it's a kiosk style implementation and we are looking for 
apples-to-apples comparisons, we are interested in the physical, touch-screen 
turning of the page interaction rather than a browser pointed at a more 
pragmatic digital collections browser, at least at this point in the 
exploration.

Thanks in advance for anyone that might have potential suggestions,

-d

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Andrew Gordon, MSI
Systems Librarian
Center for the History of Medicine and Public Health New York Academy of 
Medicine
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