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Chris
@no1089.com

Ads - at your fingertips! But this is pretty neat, if a little useless. Apple could not make the Touch Bar work, no idea how anyone will make this work. (For the record I loved the touch bar - just no proper utilities for it!)

Liliputing@liliputing.bsky.social

Your next laptop’s touchpad could double as an E Ink displa #EInk, #EInkTouchpad, #Epaper, #IntelSmartBase, #Laptops, #Touchpad

liliputing.comYour next laptop’s touchpad could double as an E Ink displaMost modern laptops have a trackpad below the keyboard, but every now and then a PC maker will decide that this space could be used for something more. We've seen laptops with  touchpads made from touchscreen LCD displays, as well as laptops with touchpads that serve double duty as numeric keypads. Soon we could see something new. E Ink has announced it's worked with Intel to design…

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arturo182
@arturo182.bsky.social

The press release is very funny, it's 10% trackpad talk and 90% AI buzzwords www.eink.com/news/detail/...

eink.comE Ink Utilizes Intel® Smart Base to Launch Innovative ePaper with Touch-Enabled Application, Ushering in a New Interactive AI PC ExperienceE Ink announced the launch of a groundbreaking ePaper touchpad solution for laptops, developed through the integration of Intel® Smart Base, Intel® Innovation Platform Framework (Intel® IPF), and Inte...
Chris
@no1089.com

ASUS does this on their budget laptops, but it still lacks the tactile feedback to make a numpad truly useful. Definitely a cool concept though!

Aeroengineer1
@aeroengineer1.bsky.social

I have seen it on them, and compared to no numpad, I will take that. One could add haptic feedback to improve it. Though, with the e-ink screen, one could also make custom button sets like a Loopdeck. I would find it really useful.

Chris
@no1089.com

Definitely! I’m all for this. My remarkable is a fantastic device - much better response than a general e-reader, so I love this as an idea. I just have no clue how anyone can make this💰viable ☹️