Smartphones and touchpads let us pocket our command centers for home and office .
Customers are now given software and seminars that help them adapt the touchpads on their end.
More likely than not, when you think of Synaptics you think of its touchpads.
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Synaptics supplies touchpads for 55% of the world's laptops, serving all the big players--like Dell, HP and Acer.
My sense is that HP might be left with another batch of TouchPads.
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This gives them the freedom to use the touchpads as they see fit.
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The Satellite P-Series are also equipped to take advantage of Windows 8 with spacious, buttonless touchpads ideal for Windows 8 gestures.
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Though the outfit's first Ultrabooks performed well and showcased some striking industrial design, they suffered from flat keyboards and flaky touchpads.
The Santa Clara, Calif. outfit has sold 150 million touchpads since 1995 and should sell 50 million more over the next year.
If you recall, Synaptics is looking to branch out from touchscreens and touchpads and break into a another kind of navigation device: keyboards.
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With touch mice and touchpads, you have to learn new gestures, but the Touch Pen is almost as easy as using your finger.
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None of this voice and machine vision means that direct touch on touchpads and displays, keyboard and mouse will go away any time soon.
It comes two days after HP announced it would be selling or spinning-off its Personal Systems Group and immediately stopping production on TouchPads and smartphones.
Lee knows that his business would go under if he gave his customers ultimate flexibility--which would mean breaking apart his touchpads and selling them as parts.
We wish ASUS had equipped the systems with metal keyboards to match the expanded aluminum touchpads, but the plastic keys felt plenty sturdy under our fingers.
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The first and most immediate change when a consumer looks at the SplitShock is the removal of the analogue sticks and the inclusion of touchpads in their place.
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When a consumer is not playing a game, the SplitShock touchpads function as a track pad with both halves making a larger area to swipe and select items.
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The touchpads serve the same function as the analogue sticks.
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All Things Digital reports that Best Buy is so unhappy with the sales that it is unwilling to pay for all the HP TouchPads that are taking up valuable space.
The idea is to design and make touchpads that fit anywhere and come in any shape and size--with lights, buttons or graphics underneath--as well as to shrink the design cycle.
In part, that's because the Gaze UI now supports keyboard input, whereas last year it was completely touchpad-based (and we all know touchpads aren't the most reliable things even under normal circumstances).
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The touchpads are also fully programmable by developers.
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