Photos: Reinventing the scroll wheel
A recent visit by CNET.co.uk's sister site, News.com, to Synaptics' headquarters in Santa Clara, California, turned up several notable concept designs that might make their way into future PCs.
The company, perhaps best-known for its iPod Click Wheel, actually receives the bulk of its revenue from designing and building touchpads for laptop PCs. One example of a current product featuring Synaptics' technology is Toshiba's Qosmio entertainment laptop. This is a dual-mode touchpad, which means it can either operate in cursor mode or in multimedia mode by tapping the button in the upper right-hand corner with the arrows. The touchpad can be used to adjust the volume or launch different applications when in multimedia mode, as shown here.
Credit: Tom Krazit/CNET News.com
