ForcePad: The End of Mouse Era

Bangalore: The advancement in technological products has been the fastest in the last 4-5 years. But one thing which has not seen a major advancement in decades is the way we navigate on computers. Mouse and then trackpad have been the only devices we have used. To navigate to this webpage today, you had to scroll and click multiple times, whether you tapped down on a laptop trackpad or pressed a traditional mouse button.

The latest introduction by Synaptics can force this simple mouse or trackpad click on its way out. The company announced a new kind of laptop trackpad, called the ForcePad. The user doesn't have to click a button or tap the pad to make the cursor activate something on the screen. Instead, the ForcePad works by sensing how much pressure is applied to it. It's thinner, more accurate and has no moving parts so it's less breakable. This will start showing up in laptops by 2013.