Touch pad of the future: Hands-on with Synaptics' ClickPad Series 3.0
For all the advancements laptops have made, the humble touch pad has been essentially running the same hardware and software for years.
When you get right down to it, laptops only consist of a few key parts as far as user interface is concerned. Keyboard, screen, speakers--and, of course, the touch pad. With multitouch tablets and smartphones changing the interface landscape drastically, it's quickly becoming a multitouch world, and computers are the devices playing catch-up. Synaptics, makers of most multitouch touch pads used today, have a next-generation clickpad in development that hopes to close the gap quickly. Called the … Read more