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Title: A new pointing device
Post by: Tactile on Mon, 07 August 2017, 14:40:00

I'd like to play with one of these (https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/grayhill-inc/T101-DEV1/GH7553-ND/3662182). Watch this video (https://www.digikey.com/en/videos/g/grayhill/features-and-benefits-of-the-multi-touch-ring-encoder) to see how it works.

Title: Re: A new pointing device
Post by: knightjp on Wed, 09 August 2017, 00:29:13

Looks interesting.

Title: Re: A new pointing device
Post by: Findecanor on Wed, 09 August 2017, 13:29:07

It's just a touchpad on top of a dial.

I would need to see a real use-case that takes advantage of the combination of touchpad and dial to be wowed.
The video does not really give any reason to why they should have been combined in the first place... I guess it would be useful if you would need to save space, but that's it.