Published on December 14th, 2013 | by John
A TRACKPAD MADE OUT OF WOOD
The orée trackpad is beautiful example of how things made out of wood can be a natural part of your office. Made from a single piece of of premium maple or walnut wood, the orée trackpad supports a full set of simple and advanced multi touch gestures to interact naturally with your computer screen.
It can be used instead of a mouse and with a simple gesture, it can be also transformed into a numerical keypad. It works with any Mac (OS X or later) or Windows 7 or 8 computer equipped with Bluetooth.Many gestures are supported such as
1 finger drag |
Mouse cursor movement |
1 finger tap |
Left button click |
1 finger double tap |
Left button double click |
1 finger double tap and drag |
Click and select text/Click and drag file or folder |
1 finger edge top swipe |
Show Charms (or application bar) on Windows 7/8 |
2 finger tap |
Right button click |
2 finger vertical/horizontal drag |
Vertical/horizontal scroll |
2 finger pinch in/out |
Active windows zoom in/out |
3 finger pinch in |
Show desktop |
3 finger pinch out |
Show Launchpad (Mac OS) |
Show Windows 3D flip (Win 7/8) |
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3 finger double tap |
Switch from trackpad to numerical keypad mode (and vice versa) |
3 finger left/right edge swipe |
Next/previous track/page |
3 finger up edge swipe |
Active Mission Control (Mac OS) |
Show Windows 3D flip (Win 7) |
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Show Windows Home screen (Win8) |
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3 finger down edge swipe |
Show/hide desktop |
4 finger left/right swipe |
Switch between applications |
The only downside is the fact that the initial batch of slabs has been sold. The next batch will ship in early January 2014.
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