How Do I Use a DIGITABLE?

And that's a wrap, #FactFeb has finished! Every day in February nsquared released a video demonstrating the power of the DIGITABLE, features that you might not have known existed in each of our 15 nsquared tabletop apps. So how do you use a DIGITABLE? Check out our final seven short videos:

Did You Know that you can change the image and number of pieces in nsquared jigsaw?

Did You Know that you can save and email an nsquared notebook?

Did You Know that you can select the page type in nsquared notebook?

Did You Know that you can select the page type in nsquared notebook?

Did You Know that you can display multiple floors of your building in nsquared rooms?

Did You Know that you can reserve a room straight from nsquared rooms?

Did You Know that you can save documents as zip files with nsquared sharing?

nsquared produces innovative multi-user software and hardware with cutting edge technology: smart tables for smart solutions. Intuitive technology with a unique user experience, each of our touch tables has been intricately designed to compliment and enhance your team work flow. Rethink the office table. With a range of touch screen meeting tables available, from smart conference tables and interactive desks to coffee touch tables, nsquared has the tools for you to transform your old workspace into a paperless office in the digital age.

Follow nsquared on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook for updates on cutting edge multi-user technology.

The Future of Work

Are you still using paper in your office?

Here are two short videos to help you think about your office space in the 21st Century.

Enriching the Real Easte Experience

Meet Paula and Sam, business owners looking for a new office space. Sebastian, their real estate agent, uses his DIGITABLE to dynamically present information, enriching the real estate experience.

 

 

Creating a Collaborative Design Experience

 

Paula and Sam need help furnishing their new office psace. Together with their interior designer, Rachel, they collaborate on her DIGITABLE to efficiently and innovately reach the perfect solution for their space.

To be continued

Stay tuned to see how Paula and Sam use their DIGITABLE PLUS in their new office space to work more efficiently with their team and halve their meeting times. Work. Together. Better.

Multi-user Solutions

nsquared produces innovative multi-user software and hardware with cutting edge technology: smart tables for smart solutions. Intuitive technology with a unique user experience, each of our touch tables has been intricately designed to compliment and enhance your team work flow.

With a range of touch screen tables available from smart conference tables and interactive desks to coffee touch tables, nsquared has the right digital experience for you. To see what the future of work looks like, follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.

Introducing the DIGITABLE PLUS

 

The DIGITABLE PLUS is the ultimate in meeting space technology

Multi-user technology is the next step in technology. This has been the unshakeable vision of nsquared for the past eight years.

Collaboration is a powerful  agent for productivity. Well-designed modern workplaces have ‘anchor points’ to encourage planned and unplanned meetings. These are key to encouraging and harnessing creative team thinking and organisational innovation. 

Eight years of research, one year of meticulous designing and six months of solid perspiring has led us to the point where we are today.

And today, we are excited to announce, marks the launch of our newest and best digital table to date: the DIGITABLE PLUS.

The DIGITABLE PLUS has been designed to be the ultimate ‘anchor point’. Researched, designed, prototyped, and tested to within an inch of our lives here at nsquared. We are excited to announce that it is now available to purchase for your workplace to get your collective juices flowing. Start having truly productive meetings. Work. Together. Better.

To learn more, watch the video below and send us an inquiry at info@nsquaredsolutions.com.

For updates on digital tables and multi-user technology, follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter.

Activity Based Working: The Future of The Office

 The Ogilvy & Mather Office has a variety of places to work Picture: Future of Work

The Office has seen a number of transformations over the past thirty years. The cubicle farm of the 1980s, fraught with privacy issues and distractions, eventually broke down its walls to make people feel more accessible and lessen these distractions. The detest of the cubicle farm led to its exact opposite, the open plan office. Just destroying the cubicle walls as a solution for distracted employees and a lack of transparency meant a number of new flaws itself. Studies have shown that people (especially introverts) find the open plan office can actually hinder or intimidate lowering productivity and teamwork, and more often than not, other people are a significant source of distraction.

    

The approach to the office space of 2015, which has been favoured by nimble startups such as Dropbox and even huge corporations such as Google, is the idea of ‘Activity Based Working’ (ABW). ABW is a style of working which is team-oriented and allows for a significant degree of flexibility for workers. There is no fixed desk for any individuals, who position themselves wherever they like within the office depending on their preference and work from laptops. 

    

Why are office architects designing in this way? Steven Hodder, president of the Riba and chairman of Hodder and Partners Architects, put it this way - "The idea that the desk is a unit of productivity is changing very, very rapidly. Your productivity is not measured by the amount of time you sit behind a thing called a desk. It is what you do. It is about your output.”

Open, fluid spaces means people can sit themselves where they would like depending on their mood that day: stressful project due tomorrow? Private booth it is today. Creative brainstorming of a product needed? The beanbags near the kitchen it is. 

   

This concept of ABW is beginning to be more freely accessible as technology progresses: we are no longer confined to landlines plugged into a single person’s desk. Computer software means the same level of communication can easily be achieved wherever a person has their laptop. 

When you go to ABW, however, you lose the idea of 'your own space' in the office: having your pictures on your wall, your snacks in your desk drawer, your favourite pens on your desk. In ABW, you personalise your environment to suit your personality. This is a look beyond technology which often, and mistakenly so, mediates communications. Going to a pure digital world is often a fallacy, and overlooks the joy we get from physical spaces and objects, which is why the importance of human interaction is so vital to the modern office. 

   
And so, most importantly, this kind of fluid space takes full advantage of a team atmosphere by providing designated spaces for interaction and collaboration. As Steven Hodder put it, “there are great stories of researchers having incidental space and just bumping into one another and having ideas.” Anchor points, for planned or accidental meetings, are key to harnessing and encouraging innovative team thinking. Collaborative technology like digital tables are designed specifically for this purpose, to achieve a real, dynamic and interactive activity based work space, to enhance collaboration and communication instead of controlling it. 
  
 ABW is an exciting next step for offices moving to a social, collaborative approach to work. AB provides more productive employees, which is good for business, and happier, more satisfied employees meaning a better outcome for everyone.  
  
 To learn more about collaborative technology, visit nsquaredsolutions.com or follow nsquared on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn.

Users collaborate on a DIGITABLE PLUS

A revolution in technology… what's next?

Pioneering technology since 2008

The nsquared digitable has come a long way since 2008.

Back then, when massive multi-touch technology was still being realised, we only had the Microsoft Surface 1 to work with.

We recognised the huge potential for education, as a tool for collaborative learning and teamwork development. Personal devices might not have been as pervasive then as they are now, but technology was still focussed on the individual. Because of nsquared's vision, we have helped libraries, university students and school children advance their learning through teamwork. Our promise and vision was clear. We became Australia's first Microsoft Surface strategic partner.

Always on the forefront of technology, we were pioneers of the Samsung SUR40 technology complete with Microsoft PixelSense once it was released. We once again received incredible attention for our efforts in using this technology and we became Australia's first Microsoft Premier Partner Award for Pixelsense.

And most recently, we achieved the highest commendation for technology design in Sydney last year, winning the technology category in the Sydney 2014 Design Awards.

We have proven ourselves to be trailblazers, but this is only the beginning.

In the next few weeks, we are excited to announce,  we will be launching our latest table. With absolute care and consideration taken down to microscopic detail, this digitable is the most sophisticated yet.

Designed specifically for business,  this table will give you the most efficient and productive meetings you and your team have ever experienced.

To learn more, send us an inquiry at info@nsquaredsolutions.com. Much more to be announced soon.

Our Digitable55 in 2014