Synaptic's ChiralMotion Technology: The Future of Scrolling, Today

Scrolling is one of the most widespread actions nowadays, whether we're talking about PC, notebook or mobile phone users. However, even this specific area is constantly the subject of technological research and development, and that's exactly how the people over at Synaptics came up with a new and very innovative scrolling technology, dubbed ChiralMotion, already included in several products available on the market, as well as in many more to come in the future.

Thus, according to the company's statement, traditional scrolling methods, such as the scrollbar, wheel and scrolling region are more restrictive and less efficient. With Synaptics ChiralMotion technology, the user can apply one continuous circular motion to initiate precise and fine-tuned scrolling on any two-dimensional input surface such as Synaptics TouchPad, NavPoint and ClearPad solutions.

This patent-pending technology is applicable to consumer, communications and business devices. Synaptics ChiralMotion technology is extremely well-suited for small handheld products such as feature-rich mobile handsets, personal navigation systems and personal media players that require easy access for entertainment, music and other digital files. Scrolling through long documents or pages on a notebook PC becomes simple when using a TouchPad enhanced with ChiralMotion. To reverse the direction of scrolling, users would only need to reverse the circular motion of their finger.

"ChiralMotion is another powerful example of Synaptics technology designed to make the user experience most intuitive and rewarding in notebook and entertainment devices," said Mark Vena, Vice President of Synaptics' PC Business Unit. "ChiralMotion is part of Synaptics' growing library of gestures developed to create an enjoyable user experience by making complex technology easier to use."

According to the company, the ChiralMotion technology is now available in PC peripherals and mobile devices (various cell phones from Samsung, LG or Pantech, as well as notebooks and other devices), with more products being announced in late 2007.

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