Acer’s slab like media center remote is a thick trackpad with a screen
This is Acer’s upcoming media-center remote, as revealed in its FCC filing. Aside from its beautiful black slab-like design, the little box packs some rather cool features.
The Slab (as it probably isn’t destined to be named) is what would happen if you ripped the multi-touch trackpad from your laptop, and stuffed it with some LEDs. The touch-sensitive pad connects wirelessly to the target computer using a USB dongle, and starts up in mouse-mode. You can control a cursor with a finger, scroll with two fingers and even tilt to control the media center thanks to an accelerometer.
Hit the right button, though, and things get interesting. The LEDs light up and shows the positions of “buttons” for volume, play/pause and so on. You also get “video” and “music” buttons to help navigate your content.
It comes on like the chunky ThinkPad of the remote-control world, and that’s not a bad thing.
An FCC filing isn’t a launch plan, nor even a press release, but my guess would be on this turning up in stores sooner rather than later. Price, name and launch date therefore remain unknown.
Acer Slab filing [FCC via Wireless Goodness]
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