What About An External Multi-Touch Trackpad For a Mac

I used to be a big fan of ergonomic keyboards (and I still am). But I am an even bigger fan of the multi-touch trackpad. I have even extended it by using MultiClutch (I know the link looks funny, but that’s the page title, I promise). MultiClutch allows you to extend the swiping and pinching of fingers to extend to other applications and key combinations (both locally and globally). This means that it is so much a part of my daily productivity that I have had to make due without an ergonomic keyboard.

If someone knows about an external multi-touch trackpad (either wireless or USB) that supports 1,2,3 and 4 finger multi-touch, please let me know. And if one doesn’t exist, please let Apple know :) . Ultimately what I would like my “at home” setup to be is a wireless ergonomic keyboard along with a wireless ergonomic multi-touch trackpad.

I’d like to hear everyone’s thoughts on this.

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  • Zatara
    Just use your iphone as a touchpad! Glass and LCD, much better than a MacBook Pro.

    You could even display Growl notifications on it... ;-)
  • Zatara
  • @Zatara Actually, it would be pretty cool if the iPhone could act as a Bluetooth touchpad mouse. Have you considered writing an app to do that?
  • aug26th
    Japan has a product out recently. http://www.itechnews.net/tag/external-trackpad/
  • cvhyphus
    Found this old thread while looking for the same thing. That product appears to be Windows-only. 6 months later, there still doesn't appear to be such a device for Macs. I, too, use an ergonomic keyboard and trackpad as my primary input. Apple has it's MagicMouse, but that's not what I want. There is one listed on Apple's site, but all but one of the posted reviews say it's a very poorly-performing, cheap-feeling product.
  • Grigori
    A bit big, but I've heard good things about this: http://www.amazon.com/Wacom-Technology-CTT460-B...
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