Synaptics ThinTouch
Good keyboards are a valued asset in the laptop world...and they're starting to become a major factor in the tablet landscape, too. The iPad has its Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover; Microsoft Surface has its Type Cover. Perhaps Synaptics should get into the Windows 8 tablet keyboard landscape, too.
The ThinTouch keyboard is a keyboard, reinvented. Unveiled alongside the new pressure-sensitive ForcePad at a recent New York meeting, the ThinTouch is an early concept prototype of what the next generation of laptop keyboards could be. The big difference here isn't so much the thinness of the ThinTouch keyboard: it's about the same key height as the MacBook Air or Sony Vaio T's keys, based on my initial use of a sample key in a blind keyboard "taste test."
What Synaptics claims is that the ThinTouch technology requires less hardware beneath the keyboard's surface, with a keyboard that's 40% thinner than "traditional keyboards," as well as being manufactured in a way that's more mechanically reliable and allows for improved backlighting. I couldn't prove or disprove any of those claims in a simple in-person test of a single sample key, but if the ThinTouch can somehow enable thinner Ultrabo... [Read more]
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