Hasta La Gadget!

It’s no secret that one of our major gripes with some of today’s laptops are their wonky and uncomfortable touchpads, and well, apparently Swiftpoint understands the pain. No, that tiny, oddly shaped optical mouse that your eyes keep gravitating towards up there isn’t just any minuscule mouse — it’s designed to be used in place of a laptop’s touchpad… on the palmrest itself. Wait, what? Yep, the idea is that you can still use your laptop anywhere — on your lap while sitting on a couch or train — but unlike other mobile or desktop mice, you don’t need to find another surface to rest it on. It’s certainly a creative and very futuristic-looking gadget, but more than that the $69.95 Swiftpoint has some other neat tricks up its sleeve – it latches onto a tiny USB stick to charge, can last for over an hour on a 30-second charge and you can tilt it to scroll. It all sounds extremely promising, and even took two years to finally make it to market, but is it at all comfortable to use? And more importantly, accurate enough to effectively navigate within Windows or Mac OS X? We’ve been using the Swiftpoint to push around the cursor on a number of laptops over the last week, so you’ll want to hit the jump for those answers and more.

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