Gadgetory

this is a weird product you know I'm always on the hunt for unusual gadgets this falls into that category it's called numbs but that's a weird kind of name it's got a weird kind of package apparently you take this product put it on your MacBook Pro trackpad and now you have a digital number pad that lives right on the trackpad that's kind of the extent of my research so all you accountant types number crunchers you've been missing out what I'm more interested in is the tech the idea of some sort of overlay for your trackpad which completely reimagines how you would use it we're going to try it out that's what we're here for what does it say design for MacBook Pro MacBook Air red dot design award best of the best let's see what's going on here let's see if this thing is any good what okay alcohol prep pad you know that's the start of something fun here is the device I mean it's kind of strange to even call it a device whoa it is glass or plastic I don't know it's see-through it's clear look at this thing that's what it looks like you can see there's a few little toggle switches on there now I don't know how you turn this thing on and off and I'm not sure how you go back to your traditional trackpad or if it just functions that way on its own all right anyway here we go MacBook Pro would you like me to use the alcohol prep pad here jack give er a once-over it's a nice little freshen up God knows Jack needs it okay here we go this is like when you're putting on a screen protector you got to be so careful so here we go fits perfectly to be honest so right now the trackpad it feels absolutely normal working perfectly fine to ask me an app okay let's look this up oh yeah download the driver here we go the app is not really translated for English Oh slide in word to start the number pad Wow that's how easy it is now it's in number mode and then it goes back to Mouse mode normal trackpad but if I grab from the top here and just slide down you see it tells you you're now in number mode now all of a sudden just like that whoo look at the speed on that oh man I think people might actually like this what is it whoo this little button down here brings up a custom mode setup drag a URL or file whoa so each one of these buttons can be a shortcut for whatever you want that's cool all right now what does this one do up here Oh from up there you just launch the keyboard straight away if you want to use the calculator app you could do that there I mean the thing here is about speed right accountants banking traders day traders and things like this I also like how it's using gestures when you move back to Mouse mode there's no turning it off you just go back to using it as a mouse okay I figured out the hot key thing I could see this being utilized for certain games that have key combinations that you would use frequently that are complicated and you don't always want to type in so you're in the bottom here you swipe up from the corner to set up the custom keys command C command B you can drag URLs so like your bookmarks essentially the places you like to visit frequently for example we have YouTube set up as the number 4 you pull in from the side like this watch see that and then it just picks up where you want to go or what you want to trigger so let's say it happens to be YouTube I just let go on top of YouTube and boom it takes me that place so I mean I could see myself using that for the frequent websites that I visit or as I said before frequent key combinations or things that you would normally have to hack into a keyboard that you could just have a swipe away I don't know maybe it's even cooler just a quick launch space on your macbook I'm not really sure you get the audio feedback as well which is helpful so I benefit it protects your trackpad as well it's super thin it doesn't affect the trackpad usage I mean if you were gonna get an external number pad for a MacBook Pro this is definitely a more sleek implementation you open this thing up on an airplane and there's nothing to hook up that could be you in some kind of Excel spreadsheet just getting wild because I know I know you number people you like to get what you got to get wild to at a certain point this is now your you're crunching baby today's episode of unboxed RP is brought to you by 23andme have you heard of this yet and have you heard of these guys named after your 23 chromosomes did you know you had 23 chromosomes oh wow yeah okay are you a doctor does Jack have 23 poor guy this kit right here is called a saliva collection kit you spit into this tiny tube you send it away and they come back with this analysis of foot for your health and your ancestry you don't know where you're from you don't know the the history of Tom but soon you will we got two kits here Tom and I are gonna gonna do the challenge and we're gonna follow up we're gonna come back here afterwards and we're gonna find out what we're made of check it out let's get started you can 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