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Western Digital. Hey guys, we're here at Synaptics, a company that I didn't really expect to
cover when I came to CES, but they do have two really cool things that they're
showing off and they're both touchpads for laptops. The first one has four
force sensors inside of the touchpad that can tell how hard you're pressing
down. So, the main demo I like on this is if you do the two-finger swipe to
scroll down a page and you keep going, you don't have to just continually swipe
over and over and over again. If you push down harder while it's already going, it'll scroll down really fast.
And if you don't push down very hard, it'll scroll down slowly and you can actively change that while you're
looking, which is actually really, really cool. The other one, which is
totally different, has zones on each side of the touchpad, which work as if
you're touching the screen. So, for Windows 8, if you swipe on the right
one, it'll bring in the contextual menu with the different options on the right
side. And if you swipe on the left one, it'll switch what application is
actively open. This is awesome because I hate touching the screen when I'm using
a laptop. It's weird. I hate fingerprints on the screen. And hand
movement from touchpad to keyboard is natural in my opinion. And hand moving
movement from touchpad to keyboard to screen is not that natural. I'm not a
huge fan of it. So, this is actually really cool and I really like the implementation. Thanks for our sponsors
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