It’s clever, you just put a film on top of your trackpad and all of a sudden, a numpad is overlaid on your trackpad. The program will read your inputs as they would a traditional numpad. Making the trackpad pull double duty lets you avoid the annoyingness of owning the longboard keyboard but of course, you’d still need another trackpad or mouse to navigate around your computer. Can’t have everything. $US30 [Mobee Technology via This Is My Next]
olearymo
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 8:53 AMOkay, now that is pure genius.
Aaron
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 11:17 AMIt would be if you could switch between numpad and regular trackpack duties.
Still, great idea. Just a little half baked.
Mike
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 11:10 AMI can have a mouse + keyboard + keypad on a PC since oh the 1980′s?
BREAKING NEWS, in 2011 Apple now offers mouse+kb OR kb+keypad. Having both is too mainstream.
olearymo
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 2:21 PMo….kay?
This isn’t something made by apple, it’s something someone thought up to put on one of their products.
Here’s a Chill Pill, take it.
Isaac
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 11:31 PMStow your raging autism and read the article.
Luke
Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 8:09 PMYeah but honestly… Is it really realistic not to offer a full sized B/T keyboard with numerical pad when you’re sitting in front of an otherwise amazing machine like the iMac.
It’s 2011!
It’s like buying a Rolls Royce and then steer it with a bicycle handle bars. I’m feeling like a chipmunk writing this on a tiny b/t k/b.