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Two Videos of E-Lead's Noahpad in Action
Engadget has a couple of great videos depicting the new 'Noahpad' laptop offering from E-Lead. This laptop offers a new kind of touchpad that is integrated with the keyboard. An interesting idea to be sure, but I doubt I could ever get used to typing on something this strange.
You must have missed the part around 3:30 in the second video, when the user of a normal laptop keyboard experiences extreme arm discomfort. Clearly the Noahpad is superior.
Wait, hold on...you're supposed to use this thing SMS style, with your thumbs?
Now I know the designer's braindamaged. Nintendo thumb is bad enough; this guy apparently wants to turn us into thumbless lolcats or something.
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> The designer should be either shot, or forced to use it.
That's WAY too harsh a punishment for the poor keyboard designer. I mean, all he did was design a hard-to-use keyboard, so he can't possibly deserve a punishment that awful.
Better just to shoot the poor guy.
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Why force buyers to purchase two? Customer satisfaction, that's why! Because, when that keyboard pisses you off for the last time, merely throwing one Noahpad across the room might not be enough to soothe your rage.
Think about it. Wouldn't the *crunch* or that thing hitting a masonry wall at 40MPH with all those little *$(@#$# keys spilling onto the floor be really satisfying? You know it!
Thanks, E-Lead, for putting the customer first!
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You obviously haven't seen the size of pants most teenagers are wearing today. You could easily fit a 7" laptop in those those pockets.
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Oh my GOD... I didn't watch the second video until after reading your comment. This is hilarious coming from a native speaker.
"With this special feature, User can press any part of the touch pad... Just like the mouse, no matter THERE your finger tip touches any part of the touch pad, you just gentle touch, and it can execute input function."
It's strange that the language in the first video is fine. You get the impression that the narrator tried to be nice and speak correctly for the first video, got in an argument with the script writers over lunch, and then said "Fuck it" for the second one.