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Friday, January 08, 2010

"ALGORITHMS: User-Defined Gestures Make Smarter Use of TouchPad"

That touchpad on your laptop could be a gesture input device with the right software. Look for gesture recognition to start playing an important part of your daily workflow in the very near future. R.C.J.


A Scrybe software download for Synaptics' TouchPad enables users and OEMs to define their own gesture workflows. If you have a Synaptics TouchPad, and 70 percent of laptops do—including Sony, Dell, HP, Gateway and Acer laptops—you may want to participate in the free Scrybe beta-testing program by downloading a software upgrade that enables user-defined gestures. Participating in the beta-test program will also allow you to help define the standard capabilities to be delivered to OEMs when the finished product is released.
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