14 DAY TRIAL // Having an unresponsive trackpad might put a dumper on things with many tasks you might be looking to get done on your laptop.
But Google has come up with a way to test these features, without the need of having access to professional equipment around at your disposal.
The company’s Chrome OS team has birthed the Quickstep, a USB device which is capable of assessing Chromebook track-pad latency.
The system works by employing the help of a laser that lays across the touchpad and touches the phototransistor on the other side.
When the laser beam is broken/unbroken by a finger stuck between the sensor and the laser, the device quickly measures the delay between the action and the registered touch input.
The device is pretty simple in itself, so if you’re pretty handy with electronics, you could build one yourself, by reading the documentation attached by Google.
However, as mentioned in the documents, “the Quickstep device is designed to facilitate the measurements of drag-latency for touch-devices,” so it can’t do anything else.
Nevertheless, the Google project might prove to be successful in eliminating some of the annoying problems related to track-pad efficiency in future Chromebook endeavors. Check out the video below, to see how the test is actually performed.
