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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service along with corsair Memory and western digital hey guys we're here at synaptics a company that i didn't really expect to cover when I came to see yes but I do have two really cool things that they're showing off and they're both touch pads for laptops the first one has 44 sensors inside of the touch pad that can tell how hard you're pressing down so the main demo I like on this is if you do the two-finger swipe to scroll down a page and you keep going you don't have to just continually swipe over and over and over again if you push down harder while it's already going it'll scroll down really fast and if you don't push down very hard it'll scroll down slowly and you can actively change that while you're looking which is actually really really cool the other one which is totally different has zones on each side of the touchpad which work as if you're touching the screen so for Windows 8 if you swipe on the right one it'll bring in the contextual menu with the different options on the right side and if you swipe on the left one it'll switch what application is actively open this is awesome because I hate touching the screen when I'm using a laptop it's weird I hate fingerprints on the screen and hand movement from touchpad to keyboard is natural in my opinion and had moving movement from touchpad to keyboard toe screen is not that natural I'm not a huge fan of it so this is actually really cool and I really like the implementation thanks to our sponsors for sending us to CES thank you guys for watching and as always be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips