 This is Sean Hollister with The Verge and we're taking a look at Synaptics new Force Pad. This is a prototype of a new touch pad that we're going to start seeing in new laptops which uses four force sensors, kind of like a Wii Fit balance board to detect presses and pressure sensitivity rather than a physical button and hinge. We've got one here in this Lenovo U300S which has been retrofitted with the new unit. You can see it down here. We're going to take it for a spin right now. Take a look up at the screen here as Robert Shirley here who's a director of product marketing, excuse me, a product marketing manager with the Force Pad is showing off. You can push down with five fingers and it will register up to 1000 grams of force sensitivity per finger detecting up to these five different touches here. You can see it pushes down harder with the fingers. The columns will go up and down by different amounts and there are a variety of use cases for this above and beyond detecting a touch. For one thing, it should allow manufacturers to make for thinner notebooks because without the space for a hinge design beneath the touch pad, less mechanicals, there's a lot more room. But also you can use it for things like this flight simulation demonstration here. As Robert is pushing down different amounts at different positions on the touch pad, he's controlling this plane just with his fingers on the surface. If he pushes down at the very top of the touch pad, the plane will pitch down. There's an option at the top of the touch pad to pitch up, bottom of the touch pad to pinch down, left and right to bank in those directions. You can imagine the flexibilities it would give artists in paint programs, be able to detect larger, thicker brush strokes and things like that as well. Thank you for watching.
 This is Sean Hollister with The Verge and we're taking a look at Synaptics new Force
 Pad. This is a prototype of a new touch pad that we're going to start seeing in new laptops
 which uses four force sensors, kind of like a Wii Fit balance board to detect presses
 and pressure sensitivity rather than a physical button and hinge. We've got one here in this
 Lenovo U300S which has been retrofitted with the new unit. You can see it down here. We're
 going to take it for a spin right now. Take a look up at the screen here as Robert Shirley
 here who's a director of product marketing, excuse me, a product marketing manager with
 the Force Pad is showing off. You can push down with five fingers and it will register
 up to 1000 grams of force sensitivity per finger detecting up to these five different
 touches here. You can see it pushes down harder with the fingers. The columns will go up and
 down by different amounts and there are a variety of use cases for this above and beyond
 detecting a touch. For one thing, it should allow manufacturers to make for thinner notebooks
 because without the space for a hinge design beneath the touch pad, less mechanicals, there's
 a lot more room. But also you can use it for things like this flight simulation demonstration
 here. As Robert is pushing down different amounts at different positions on the touch
 pad, he's controlling this plane just with his fingers on the surface. If he pushes down
 at the very top of the touch pad, the plane will pitch down. There's an option at the
 top of the touch pad to pitch up, bottom of the touch pad to pinch down, left and right
 to bank in those directions. You can imagine the flexibilities it would give artists in
 paint programs, be able to detect larger, thicker brush strokes and things like that
 as well. Thank you for watching.