It seems that Synaptics are about to release new touchpad, one that it able to register 10 fingers at the same time. Tech itself seems mighty compact and quite ready for some serious manufacturing. Also, with the new touchpad, they’ve developed a demonstrator which has an OLED screen underneath and the new multitouch touchpad above. It’s also demoed in the video, check it from the full post.
Engadget also has pictures of the device: Engadget
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It seems that the Saturday Night Live agrees with my earlier post (Multitouch is useless, dead) and proceeds to ridicule the awesome benefits of multi-touch that we enjoy today. Check the video from the full post.
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I can almost see Apple enthusiasts rallying up with their pitchforks and torches, but let’s just continue bit further into this, before going all witch-hunt on me.
Well, ok. Multi-touch as a concept isn’t completely useless, I give you that. The simple idea of using multiple input points has so much potential but everyone has been just blindly following Jeff Han, whos initial concept was just that, a concept, not a polished product. The idea has depreciated so much that today, even though there are practically no products around, multi-touch is useless, just a buzzword to sell a product and nothing to do with usability. So far, I haven’t seen single useful commercial end user solution. Why has no-one stopped to rethink the whole idea?
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