Talk:Touchpad

Outline

Issues to cover (not exhaustive):

• Inventors and patents
• History
  • First trackpads
  • First computers with integrated trackpads
  • Palmtops with trackpads (e.g. GeoFox One)
  • Phones with trackpads (e.g. BlackBerry)
• Types
  • Integrated and external
  • Buttons vs clickable surface (e.g. Apple, Psion Mobile Computers)
  • Relative vs absolute co-ordinates (again with the Psion MC series)
  • Single point vs multitouch, and whether capacitive trackpads are inherently multitouch