New Touch-pad Technologies from synaptics - CES 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Western Digital. Hey guys, we're here at Synaptics, a company that I didn't really expect to
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cover when I came to CES, but they do have two really cool things that they're
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showing off and they're both touchpads for laptops. The first one has four
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force sensors inside of the touchpad that can tell how hard you're pressing
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down. So, the main demo I like on this is if you do the two-finger swipe to
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scroll down a page and you keep going, you don't have to just continually swipe
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over and over and over again. If you push down harder while it's already going, it'll scroll down really fast.
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And if you don't push down very hard, it'll scroll down slowly and you can actively change that while you're
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looking, which is actually really, really cool. The other one, which is
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totally different, has zones on each side of the touchpad, which work as if
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you're touching the screen. So, for Windows 8, if you swipe on the right
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one, it'll bring in the contextual menu with the different options on the right
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side. And if you swipe on the left one, it'll switch what application is
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actively open. This is awesome because I hate touching the screen when I'm using
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a laptop. It's weird. I hate fingerprints on the screen. And hand
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movement from touchpad to keyboard is natural in my opinion. And hand moving
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movement from touchpad to keyboard to screen is not that natural. I'm not a
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huge fan of it. So, this is actually really cool and I really like the implementation. Thanks for our sponsors
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for sending us to CES.