Yet Another Touchpad-Enabled Keyboard: the Adesso Win Touch Pro Desktop

We got used to seeing unbelievable keyboard layouts that are either optimized for gaming or typing, as well as for performing some other common tasks. There is really nothing much to be improved to the classical keyboard, and the market always needs improvement in order to sell.

It seems that adding a touchpad to a regular keyboard is the next logical step, so here we are with yet another input peripheral that looks like it's the result of a not-so-holy union between a laptop and a multimedia keyboard.

The Win Touch Pro Keyboard has an integrated Touchpad that tries to re-create the working environment of a normal notebook. Unlike the other touchpad-enabled keyboard designs, the Adesso offering is feature-rich and gives the user extended control over its working environment. The keyboard may be useful especially for the users who spend much of their time working on notebook systems and find it less productive to lift their hands to reach for the mouse.

The Adesso Win-Touch Pro Keyboard comes with a built-in touchpad sensor rigged with Glidepoint Technology. It can successfully replace an external mouse, while giving the user full control over the mouse pointer. The keyboard itself is comprised of noiseless tactile keys that mimic the look, feel and feedback of a notebook keyboard. The molded wrist rest comfortably supports both palms while typing.

The full-sized 107-key keyboard also features 9 customizable hotkeys that lets the user launch the most used applications and control the multimedia environment at the press of a single button. The keyboard is fully compatible with Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows Vista.

The Glidepoint Touchpad allows the user to control each aspect of computing, such as navigation, scroll, zoom, access files and many other file operations.

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