Gadgetory

i'm dan ackerman and we are taking a first look at the brand new synaptic sports pad this is the next generation of touch pad technology for your laptop for Windows 8 laptop so you're probably going to see in 2013 the big difference is unlike click pads which is the style you see on Apple laptops a lot of other laptops where the entire pandas hinge to the top and clicks down this pant is just a flat surface there are no buttons there are no click zones you just tap on it with one finger for a left click two fingers for a right click but more important than that it's a pressure-sensitive pad it can detect 64 levels of pressure from all five of your fingers so that gives you a lot of different options in terms of using finger pressure and multiple fingers in order to do stuff we checked out a couple of demos from synaptics including a finger pressure demo and a plane flying demo where you just leaned your fingers back and forth in order to steer the play around the screen you're going to start seeing force pads hopefully in Windows 8 laptops but not before 2013