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blog.wired.com - 10/1/2008
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Synaptics has added two new gestures to its trackpads, bringing more multi touch goodness to notebooks which aren't made by Apple.
Gestures have been around for some time, although – until the iPhone debuted – they were either software features or limited in utility. Most laptop users have ...
synaptics.com - 9/29/2008
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Using a piece of Conductive Acrylonitrile Stretch Glove
to make a simple fabric touchpad. The knit contains...
a resistive thread that goes from left to right, ...
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Knitted Touchpad (video)
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Synaptic Waves gestures introduced
SlashGear —
... There’s also the Two-Finger Flick, which can make for sideways scrolling, flipping pages or what have you.
These functions are described as “drop-in driver upgrades” for the Synaptic trackpads that are already “multi-touch aware.” This is really cool because a lot of laptop trackpads are made by Synaptics, which means you might have one right now, which means you could download the driver and start using gestures right now!
[via Gadget Lab at Wired] ...
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